AGHAGALLON

Aghagallon, a hamlet and parish in Co. Antrim, barony of upper Massereene, 3 miles from Moira railway station and 4 north from Lurgan, containing 13 townlands, in Lurgan union, registrar’s district of Aghalee, catholic diocese of Down. The principal industries are linen weaving and the Lough Neagh fisheries. The area of parish comprises 5,571 acres, hamlet 333 acres; the population in 1891 was, parish 2,126, hamlet 145. 

POST OFFICE – Thomas Moffet, Postmaster.
Letters through Lurgan, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office.

CATHOLIC CHURCH, Aghagallon & Ballinderry – Rev. A. M. Aulay P.P., Rev. C. O’Loan C.C.

PRESBYTERIAN – Rev. W. Elliot.

AGHALEE

Aghalee (or Aughalee), a village and parish in the barony of Massereene Upper, Co. Antrim, 4 miles north-west from Moira railway station, dispensary district of Aghalee, Lurgan union, diocese of Dromore. The parish contains 7 townlands. The area comprises abundance of limestone and slight traces of lead are found in the district; parish 2,506 acres; village 8 acres. The population in 1891 was, parish 857, village 151.

POST OFFICE (Sub-Office. Letters should have S.O. Co. Antrim added) – The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Moira.

Dispensary Medical Officer & Registrar of Births, Deaths & Marriages, William Walter Duff (M.D.) – Randalstown.

CHURCH OF IRELAND – Rev. William John Sleator.

DOLLINGSTOWN

Dollingstown, a village in the parish of Magheralin, barony of Iveagh Lower (upper half), Co. Down, 4 miles south-west from Moira railway station, which is the nearest post, money order and telegraph office. The area comprises 7 acres; the population in 1891 was 312.

PLYMOUTH BRETHERN CHAPEL.

MAGHERALIN

Magheralin (or Maralin), a village and parish, partly in the barony of O’Neilland East, Co. Armagh, but chiefly in the barony of Lower Iveagh, Co. Down, Protestant and Catholic diocese of Dromore, containing 32 townlands and the village of Dollingstown (which see). It is on the road from Armagh to Belfast, 2¾ miles east from Lurgan and 1½ south-by-west from Moira. A religious establishment is alleged to have been founded here in the 7th century by St. Coleman or Macholmac, traces of which still can be found. The area comprises – parish 8,292 acres, village 7 acres; the population in 1891 was – parish 3,469, village 312.

POST OFFICE – Robert McVeagh, Postmaster.
Letters through Lurgan; deliveries, 7 a.m. ; dispatches, 7 a.m. & 7.30 p.m.
The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Moira, 2 miles distant.

CHURCH OF IRELAND – Rev. Thomas William Clarendon.

CATHOLIC – Rev. John Quail P.P. ; Rev. Eugene McPolin C.C.

METHODIST CHAPEL –

NATIONAL SCHOOLS –
Magheralin – David Kirkwood, Master
Magheralin (C.) – John Doran, Master
Drumlin – William Harland,Master
Lisnasure – Thoms Archer, Master

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