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Ballinderry (from Irish Baile an Doire 'town of the oak wood') is a small civil and ecclesiastical parish on both sides of the County Londonderry / County Tyrone border in Northern Ireland. It is a rural parish of about 350 houses and lies on the western shores of Lough Neagh .
St Fergus (died 583) is named as first Bishop of Down. The Diocese of Connor was founded in 480 by St Macnissi, and St Malachy was bishop there (1124). The dioceses of Down and Connor were permanently joined in 1439.
Aghagallon (from Irish Achadh Gallan ⓘ, meaning 'field of the standing stones' [1] [2] is a small village and civil parish in County Antrim, [1] [2] Northern Ireland.It is about four miles (6 km) northwest of Moira, County Down, and had a population of 824 in the 2001 census.
According to tradition in 432 the local chieftain Dichu gave St Patrick land. On this land was built a barn: thus Saul became the site of St Patrick's first church. Sabhull Padraig; Sepulturam Patricii; Baile itá Saball; an Sabhall: St Andrews in Ards Priory: Benedictine monks alien house: dependent on Stogursey, Somerset and Lonlay Abbey, France;
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656–58 by surveyors under William Petty.
founded by St. Patrick; mentioned by Tírechan c.670 as – ad montem Scirte ad locum petrae.. vestigium pedis; N/E of the old church ruins lies a patch of rock with a depression known as St Patrick's footprint; close by the church is Tubernacool holy well; Slemish mountain lies two miles south-east across the river Braid valley. Schire Padruic;
St. Patrick's Church, Saint Patrick's Church, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church or Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, and similar, may refer to: Australia
Ballinderry is a civil parish and townland (of 1182 acres) in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Massereene Upper . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]