placenamesDunluce Upper
Dún Libhse Uachtarach
Ballymoney’s corn trade recovered after an early attempt to establish a market had lapsed.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Dún Libhse Uachtarach · Irish · main form
- Dunluce Upper · English · main form
Place & story
Stores and a charge per sack
Ballymoney’s grain market began in 1820 but later ceased for lack of encouragement, according to Samuel Lewis. It revived in 1831, when a new market-place was assigned to the trade. McEldeny and Company built stores and were entitled to a penny per sack for their use and for weighing. Lewis’s 1837 description records oats moving to Liverpool, London and other English markets, alongside grain consumed by a nearby distillery. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunluce Upper. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymoney: 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.