placenamesBelfast Lower
Béal Feirste Íochtarach
An 1837 parish account records both local production and a bequest for clothing.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Béal Feirste Íochtarach · Irish · main form
- Belfast Lower · English · main form
Place & story
Industry and a named charitable purpose
Ballynure parish had a substantial paper mill producing finer kinds of paper when Samuel Lewis described it in 1837. A bleach-green and stone quarries supplied other kinds of work; the quarried basaltic stone was used for buildings and road repairs. Lewis also recorded a £100 bequest from the late Mr. Dobbs of Castle Dobbs for winter clothing for poor people. His account names the purpose of that gift without identifying its recipients or their number. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Belfast Lower. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballynure, Antrim: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.