placenamesKillinchy and Islands
Cill Dhuinsí
Lewis recorded a bequest whose interest supported poorer members of the Presbyterian congregation.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Cill Dhuinsí · Irish · main form
- Killinchy and Islands · English · main form
Place & story
The income from Major Potter’s gift
Major Potter left £100 in 1810 for poor members of Killinchy’s Presbyterian meeting-house, according to Samuel Lewis. The interest was divided among them each Christmas. The £100 was the bequeathed capital, rather than the amount distributed annually. Lewis’s 1837 parish account preserves this specific form of congregational charity alongside the schools and places of worship serving Killinchy and its surrounding district. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Barony
- Castlereagh Upper
- Barony
- Dufferin
- Coordinates
- 54.47418, -5.75136 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 65699 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Killinchy and Islands. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Killinchy: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-15. How this page was prepared.