placenamesBallymoney
Baile Monaidh
Lewis traced a seasonal trade from the inland market through Portrush.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Monaidh · Irish · main form
- Ballymoney · English · main form
Place & story
Casks moving to the coast
Ballymoney’s butter market handled about 10,000 casks during the season, according to Samuel Lewis’s 1837 account. Most were shipped from Portrush to Liverpool, giving the inland market a direct connection with the coast and English buyers. The town’s provision trade also included roughly 4,000 pig carcasses sold seasonally, chiefly cured locally for Liverpool and other English markets. Some continued to be bought by Belfast curers. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Dunluce Upper
- Barony
- Kilconway
- Coordinates
- 55.07640, -6.48891 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 61305 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballymoney. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballymoney, 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.