placenamesBallynagarrick
Baile na gCarraig
Ballynagarrick in Tullylish parish has a history connecting the Magill estate with a long-established congregation.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na gCarraig · Irish · main form · validated name
- Ballynagarrick · English · main form
Place & story
Land within the Magill estate
M. P. Campbell’s history of Gilford traces part of Ballynagarrick to Captain Magill’s acquisition of half the townland from Art Og Maginnis for £150 before the 1641 rebellion. By the end of the conflict, Magill held land across the surrounding district, including this Ballynagarrick property. After his death in 1670 his estate passed to his grandson John Johnston. The transaction places the townland within the changing pattern of seventeenth-century landownership around Gilford. [2]
Newmills Presbyterian Church
Newmills Presbyterian congregation developed from meetings in a thatched cottage in Ballynagarrick and was formally established in 1796. Its history includes repeated rebuilding: a larger meeting house opened in 1878, and a new church followed the destruction of the previous building by fire in 2001. The replacement opened in May 2003. The former Ballynagarrick schoolhouse, closed as a school in 1922, had also become part of congregational life, serving as a lecture hall after its transfer to the church committee in 1929. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Lower, Upper Half
- Civil parish
- Tullylish
- Coordinates
- 54.39689, -6.39856 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413217 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynagarrick. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Gilford and its mills, Review, volume 4number 3, 1977 · M P Campbell, Craigavon Historical Society
- Newmills Presbyterian Graveyard: congregational history · Lurgan Ancestry
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.