placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Ballynahinch
Baile na hInse
A dated church, gallery stairs and a local clockmaker’s work preserve another strand of Ballynahinch’s history.
Recorded locationBallynahinch54.40371° N · 5.89003° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Baile na hInse · Irish · main form
- Ballynahinch · English · main form
Place & story
A building dated 1751
First Presbyterian Church stands on Windmill Street in Ballynahinch townland. Its datestone records construction in 1751 during John Strong’s ministry. The building has a cruciform plan and a surrounding graveyard. External stone stairs lead to galleries in three wings, with arched fanlights above the gallery doors. The architectural survey records a substantial extension to the southern wing around 1992. [2]
Repairs and galleries
The official survey quotes the 1837 Ordnance Survey memoirs describing a well-maintained church with three galleries and repairs last undertaken in 1828. It suggests that the galleries may belong to that repair programme, based partly on their cast-iron columns. This is an architectural interpretation rather than a securely documented date for every internal alteration. [2]
William Kenmuir’s clock
Local clockmaker William Kenmuir installed the clock on the north gallery in 1843. His named contribution connects a working craftsperson with the meeting house’s interior, alongside the successive building campaigns recorded in its walls, stairs and galleries. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Kinelarty
- Civil parish
- Magheradrool
- Coordinates
- 54.40371, -5.89003
- Mapped area
- 3.05 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66769 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
89People recorded
19Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
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This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballynahinch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- First Presbyterian Church,HB18/07/008,1999survey · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- First Presbyterian Church on Windmill Street, Ballynahinch, County Down, as photographed in September 2015 illustration: based on a Ballynahinch First Presbyterian Church by Eric Jones. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.