Lower Ballinderry

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Lower Ballinderry
County Antrim

Ballinderry Moravian Church
Location
Grid reference: J128676
Location: 54°32’39"N, 6°15’25"W
Data
Post town: Lisburn
Postcode: BT28
Local Government
Council: Lisburn and Castlereagh

Lower Ballinderry is a small village to the west of Upper Ballinderry in County Antrim, all within the townland of Ballinderry and the Barony of Massereene Upper.

The village sits a short distance to the southeast of Portmore Lough (otherwise known as Lough Beg) and beyond it the vast expanse of Lough Neagh. It is seven and a half miles to the west of Lisburn. In the 2001 it had a population of 441.

The village sits at a crossroads that linked the mediæval church site of Aghagallon (Ballinderry Old Graveyard), and later to Portmore Castle, established at the Plantation of Ulster.

The village has at its core Ballinderry Moravian Church (a listed building) which along with other listed structures forms a distinct core to the settlement around the crossroads. It has a pre-eminently 18th century character, visible in buildings, in form and layout, and in the lime tree plantings.

Churches

  • Ballinderry Moravian Church

See also

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Lower Ballinderry)

References