placenamesCherryvalley
Alt na Silíní
Cherryvalley near Comber appears in local history as a place of horse racing and families whose gifts supported the town’s churches.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Alt na Silíní · Irish · main form · validated name
- Cherryvalley · English · main form
Place & story
Steeplechasing at Evans’s Hill
On 26 December 1853, spectators gathered at Evans’s Hill in Cherryvalley for the Comber Steeplechase. Comber Historical Society records a large viewing stand with a refreshment room beneath it and an amateur brass band providing music. The Magnetic Telegraph Company connected the stand to the railway, allowing the results to be sent promptly to Belfast. More than 4,000 spectators travelled by train from Belfast. [2]
The Cochrane family’s gifts
The historical society’s account of the 1950s records gifts by Mrs Cochrane of Cherryvalley to First Comber Presbyterian Church. She provided furniture for a new porch in memory of her husband David. She also gave a memorial window commemorating her sisters Jane Davidson and Margaret Porter and her brother Robert James Crosby. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Civil parish
- Comber
- Coordinates
- 54.53891, -5.72847 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413225 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Cherryvalley. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Comber in the 1850s — 1853 · Comber Historical Society
- Comber in the 1950s — Cherryvalley family gifts · Comber Historical Society
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.