placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Ballaghmore
Archival descriptions and a family historian’s account connect this Ballymoney-parish townland with service far from Antrim.
Recorded locationBallaghmore55.09002° N · 6.48203° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Ballaghmore · English · main form
Place & story
John Dick Pinkerton overseas
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland’s First World War guide identifies John Dick Pinkerton of Ballaghmore as serving with the Royal Naval Armoured Car Squadron in Russia and Romania during 1916–17. Its description of the Pinkerton papers, collection D3754, includes a typed memoir. The catalogue therefore provides a specific link between this local family and the war on the eastern front. [2]
Letters kept within the family
A newspaper account of a Ballymoney U3A lecture records another route by which the family’s wartime history survived. Retired solicitor John Pinkerton discussed his uncles George and John Dick. He explained that letters from the elder brother to their mother supplied material for his talk. This is a named family researcher’s account of preserved correspondence, alongside the separately catalogued archival collection. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Dunluce Upper
- Civil parish
- Ballymoney
- Coordinates
- 55.09002, -6.48203
- Mapped area
- 0.65 km²
- Logainm ID
- 62143 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
39People recorded
9Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Holmes 10
- Bellingham 6
- Anderson 5
- Patterson 4
- Pinkerton 4
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballaghmore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Guide to the manuscript sources for the study of the First World War in PRONI, version 2.0, 17 July 2014, page 25 · Public Record Office of Northern Ireland; copy hosted by Creative Centenaries
- The Pinkertons of Ballaghmore talk · The Newsroom, Northern Ireland World; account by John Pinkerton
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.