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Location
County: Londonderry
Barony: Coleraine
Diocese: Derry
Probate registry: Londonderry
Poor law union: Ballymoney, Coleraine
Places: Aghadowey, Ringsend
Graveyards
Aghadowey CI
Aghadowey P
Churches
CI: Aghadowey
P: Aghadowey, Ballylintagh, Killaig, Ringsend
RC: Aghadowey (Coleraine)
Landed estates
Beresford estate
Derry bishopric estate
Du Pré estate
Heyland estate
Ironmongers’ Company estate
Jackson estate
Mercers’ Company estate
Merchant Taylors’ Company estate
Richardson estate
Rowley estate
Schools
Cullycapple (SCH/986)
Aghadowey (SCH/230)
Droghead (SCH/1368)
Moneycarrie (SCH/993)
Aghadowey (SCH/990)
Culcrow/Milltown (SCH/946)
Ringsend (SCH/947)
Local government
Law and order
Business records
Orr, Aghadowey
Famine Relief
Papers of the Aghadowey & Agivey Relief Committee, including subscription list, 1847 (NAI, RLFC/3/2/18/2)
Records of Aghadowey and Agivey Relief Committee, 1847 (D3932; MIC118)
Family papers
Papers of the McLees family, Aghadowey area, including emigrant letters (D904)
Census
Census Subs
HMR, CPH, FL
Publications
T. H. Mullin, Aghadowey: A Parish and its Linen Industry (1972) includes names from Pyke’s survey of 1725 and Alsop’s survey of 1765, both of the Ironmongers’ Company estate
Jennifer Cunningham, ‘Rural smiths - in the parishes of Aghadowey, Agivey and Macosquin circa 1840–1986’, The Bann Disc, 3 (1996)
Other sources
Notebook containing notification of registering arms, including residents of Aghadowey, 1796 – D668/N/1
Subscribers to a reward fund relating to a libel against in the Bovagh Cavalry, 1798 – Londonderry Journal, 9 Jan. 1798