Family and Local History
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Case Studies
Localities and Families in Co. Londonderry & North Antrim

Case Studies of Localities [Note that each Locality Study will open in a separate page or Tab. Close the Tab, when finished.]

County Londonderry

Barony Parish Town [Street] or Townland
N. W. Liberties of Londonderry Templemore City of Londonderry. William Street.
N. E. Liberties of Coleraine Coleraine Town of Coleraine. Church Street.
Ballyaghran Town of Portstewart [1901 to 1911].
Coleraine Errigal Townland of Coolnasillagh.
Desertoghill Townland of Moyletra Toy.
Desertoghill Townland of Cullyramer.
Aghadowey
Loughinsholin Killelagh Townland of Halfgayne.
Maghera Townlands of Gorteade, Tirgarvil & Upperland [Village of Upperlands].
Townland of Ballymacilcur.
Townland of Ballynacross.
Termoneeny Townlands of Cabragh, Derganagh & Lurganagoose [Village of Knockloughrim]
Magherafelt Town of Magherafelt [Broad Street]
Ballynascreen Townlands of Drumderg, Dunmurry and Glebe.*
Keenaght Drumachose Townland of Ballycrum.
Town of Limavady [Roe Mill Road Street].
Bovevagh Townland of Drumadreen.
Dungiven Townland of Ballymacallion.
Town of Dungiven [Part of Main Street].
Tirkeeran Cumber Upper Townland of Lisbunny.
Faughanvale Townlands of Coolafinny & Muff [Village of Eglinton].

County Antrim

Church Street, Ballymoney
Townlands of Araboy, Croagh Beg, Croagh More, Drumnagee, Drumnagessan, Lisbellanagroagh Beg, Lisbellanagroagh More and Toberkeigh in the Parish of Ballintoy, Barony of Cary, Co. Antrim.
Townland of Craigs in the Parish of Craigs, Barony of Kilconway, Co. Antrim.

Case Studies of Families -Those marked * were originally on my CD Researching Derry & Londonderry Ancestors.

Frizzell family of Union St. Ballymoney.[WEBPAGE]] Dunlop family of Drumnagee, Parish of Ballintoy. [PDF]
Moody family of Church Street, Coleraine. [PDF] * Pollock family of Moyletra Toy, Garvagh. [PDF] *
O'Kane family of Coolnasillagh, Ringsend. [PDF] * Long family of Cullyramer, Ballymacallion & Drumadreen. [PDF] *
Doherty family of Gorteade, Upperlands. [PDF] * Crilly family of Gorteade, Upperlands. [PDF] *
Campbell family of Upperlands. [PDF] * Montgomery family of Upperlands. [PDF] *
Walsh family of Broad Street, Magherafelt. [PDF] * Forrest family of Limavady. [PDF] *
Dale family of Drumadreen, Limavady/Dungiven. [PDF] * Mullan family of Ballymacallion. [PDF] *
Fallows family of Dungiven & Derrynaflaw. [PDF] * Brolly family of Eglinton. [PDF] *
McMullan/McMcMillan family of Lisbunny. [PDF] * Bond family of Lisbunny. [PDF] *
Archibald family of William Street, Derry. [PDF] * Doherty family of William Street, Derry. [PDF] *
Lecky family of William Street, Derry. [PDF] * Denis & James Cassidy of William Street, Derry. [PDF] *

Thanks to Tim Kane of Seattle for a link to a Biography of Dominick O'Kane and his Family [43 MB file]. Dominick was the son of Bernard O'Kane who left the townland of Gorteade in the 1860s for the North East of England where Dominick was born. Later the family emigrated to America.

For those of you interested in the Glens of Antrim region, you will find information on some families and localities at the Clachan Project within the Glens of Antrim Historical Society website.

Remember that if you have difficulty reading any of the c.1860 Six Inch townland maps you can get a better copy at askaboutireland.ie [Griffith's Valuation]. If you are not sure of what to do, when you get there - read this. Note also that the maps covering many parts of Mid Antrim on the askaboutireland.ie website are OS maps which do not demarcate the boundaries of holdings and do not include the numbers and lettering from the printed valuation.Unfortunately there are no large scale town maps on askaboutireland.ie so I had to use the copies of the town maps that are held in PRONI. The town maps [and the rural townland maps] have been reproduced here with the kind permission of the Deputy Keeper of Records, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland.

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