Aghadowey Parish

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)

Aghadowey CoI

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