placenamesBallinderry
Baile an Doire
Nineteenth-century schools and small charitable bequests reveal investment in the Antrim parish’s everyday life.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Doire · Irish · main form
- Ballinderry · English · main form
Place & story
Building schools across the parish
Lewis’s 1837 account listed schools at Lower Ballinderry, Killultagh and Legartariffe alongside the parochial school. All except Legartariffe had been built during the preceding decade, chiefly through Dean Stannus’s efforts, at a combined cost of £600. The schools could accommodate 300 children; that figure describes capacity rather than recorded attendance. [2]
Remembering local benefactors
Lewis also recorded separate gifts to the parish poor from Murray, J. Moore Johnston and Hugh Casement. Their bequests used both British and Irish currency, a distinction retained in his account. Such smaller endowments belong alongside the better-known buildings of Ballinderry: they document resources directed towards people in need within the parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Massereene Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.54748, -6.24325 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 44.65 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61331 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballinderry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballinderry, 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.