placenamesGrange of Ballyscullion
Gráinseach Bhaile Uí Scoillín
Lewis distinguished the Antrim grange from neighbouring parishes in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Gráinseach Bhaile Uí Scoillín · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Grange of Ballyscullion · English · main form
Place & story
Church payments and neighbouring congregations
Samuel Lewis described the Antrim grange of Ballyscullion as an extra-parochial district that had paid neither church cess nor tithe. Its Established Church members attended services in neighbouring Duneane, within the diocese of Connor. Catholic organisation followed a different connection: the grange belonged to the Ballyscullion district in the diocese of Derry and had a small chapel. Lewis also recorded a Presbyterian place of worship. His 1837 account therefore places this district within several religious networks while distinguishing its exemption from the church payments levied elsewhere. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Toome Upper
- Coordinates
- 54.80163, -6.42925 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 17.24 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61342 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Grange of Ballyscullion. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyscullion, a grange: 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.