The old burying ground at Ballylinney is reached by a lane that runs from the Ballylinney Road past the Ballylinney Presbyterian meeting house. Prior to the Reformation this was the site of a medieval parish church. Like Kilbride, Ballylinney has its own mort-safe or corpse house. This is well-built with a barrel vault and stone roof.
Two of the more interesting figures buried here have no memorials, the entrepreneur John Rowan of Doagh, who did in 1858, and the poet Thomas Beggs, who died in 1847. Unlike most old graveyards, Ballylinney is not cared for by a local authority, but is maintained by a committee representing the families of those who hold burial rights here.