placenamesBallyculter
Baile Uí Choltair
Lewis recorded trade and jurisdiction linking the parish with Strangford in 1837.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Uí Choltair · Irish · main form
- Ballyculter · English · main form
Place & story
A court at Strangford
Samuel Lewis recorded a manor court at Strangford every three weeks in his 1837 account of Ballyculter parish. The seneschal presided on behalf of the lord of the manor. Lewis described its jurisdiction as extending across the parish and the river of Strangford, without listing particular cases or identifying the court’s building. [2]
Corn for Liverpool and Glasgow
The same account described fertile, well-cultivated land and a considerable corn trade to Liverpool and Glasgow. Most of the parish was arable or pasture, with smaller areas of woodland, water, waste and bog. Lewis’s account links local agriculture with two overseas markets, but gives neither cargo totals nor a breakdown of grain varieties. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Lecale Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.34862, -5.64668 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 22.11 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65757 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballyculter. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Ballyculter — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.