placenamesBallynascreen
Baile na Scríne
The parish’s market centre was renamed during a programme of company-sponsored building.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile na Scríne · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Ballynascreen · English · main form
Place & story
From Cross to Draperstown
Samuel Lewis identified Draperstown as Ballynascreen’s market and post-town. Formerly called Cross, it received the name Draperstown in 1818 because most of the town belonged to the Drapers’ Company. In his account of 1837, a market-house, hotel and dispensary for company tenants, with a surgeon’s residence, were still being built. Their principal material was freestone, and Lewis described their style as Elizabethan. [2]
Regular trading days
A Wednesday market and a monthly fair brought trade into this parish centre. The fair, established in 1792, took place on the first Friday of each month and dealt in general farming stock. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Derry
- Barony
- Loughinsholin
- Coordinates
- 54.78817, -6.82881 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 131.82 km²
- Logainm ID
- 2899 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynascreen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Draperstown: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2009-01-27. How this page was prepared.