Ballyorgan, County Down
Ballyorgan
Baile Uí Argáin | |
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Village | |
  Ballyorgan Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 54°35′24″N 5°46′39″W / 54.59°N 5.77737°W |
Ballyorgan (Irish: Baile Uí Argáin in Irish), is a townland in the barony of Lecale Lower in County Down.[1]
History
[edit]A church called Chapel naCoole once stood in the townland of Ballyorgan, which had, in 1615, been under the ownership of Bangor Abbey. In 1605, at the time of the dissolution of the monasteries, the church at Ballyorgan (in Lecale), was then called Ballilughan or Ballyurkegan. It belonged to Bangor Abbey, under the abbot William O’Dornan. The churches of the Abbey and related tithes and alterages were seized along with the Abbey.[2][3] The chapel at Ballyorgan had also been called Baliurgan, and the townland in which it stood had also been known as Ballyurcegan, Ballyverdgan, and Balleurcegan.[4] Reeves, in 1847, also referred to Ballyorgan as Baliurgan, Ballyurcegan, Ballelughan, and Balleurkegan in Lecaile and noted that the rectory at that site had been held by Henry Leslie in 1693, but that it was in ruins at the time of writing, apart from the west gable. It was known as Cappel na Coole.[5] O’Laverty notes that the tithes of Ballyurcegan were valued at 53 shillings and 4 pence, due to Bangor Abbey, and that Baliurgan chapel was valued at 2 markes in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas Taxatio Ecclesiastica.[6]
See also
[edit]- List of archaeological sites in County Down
- List of windmills in County Down
- List of townlands of County Down
References
[edit]- ^ "Ballyorgan/Baile Uí Argáin". Placenames Database of Ireland (logainm.ie). Archived from the original on 10 June 2025. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ^ "Ros Davies' Co. Down, Northern Ireland Family History Research Site. Ballyorgan". freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ^ Costello, Michael A. (1909). De annatis Hiberniæ : a calendar of the first fruits' fees levied on papal appointments to benefices in Ireland A.D. 1400 to 1535 extracted from the Vatican and other roman archives with copious topographical notes together with summaries of papal rescripts relating to benefices in Ireland and biographical notes of the bishops of Irish sees during the same period. Dundalk: W. Tempest. p. 120. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ^ Knox, Alexander (1875). A History of the County of Down. Hodges, Foster & Co. p. 120. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ^ Reeves, William (1847). Ecclesiastical antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, consisting of a taxation of those dioceses, compiled in the year MCCCVI.; with notes and illustrations. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 37. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
- ^ O’Laverty, James (1878). An historical account of the Diocese of Down and Connor, ancient and modern. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 37. Retrieved 10 June 2025.