Agivey Parish

County: Londonderry

Barony: Coleraine

Diocese: Derry

Poor law union: Coleraine

Probate registry: Londonderry

Graveyards

Agivey – inscriptions in PRONI (D3672/8)

Churches

See Aghadowey

Vestry records

See Aghadowey

Landed estates

Derry bishopric estate; Du Pré estate; Ironmongers’ Company estate

Schools

Local government

Law and order

Business records

Famine Relief

See Aghadowey

Family papers

Census

Census subs

HMR (under Aghadowey), FL

Publications

Jennifer Cunningham, ‘Rural smiths - in the parishes of Aghadowey, Agivey and Macosquin circa 1840–1986’, The Bann Disc, 3 (1996)

George Gilmore, ‘Agivey Brick and Tile Works’, The Bann Disc, 16 (2010)

Other sources

Commonplace book, late 17th/early 18th centuries: belonged in 1696 to Samuel Hyndman of Milltown, Agivey; appears to have been in the possession of others subsequently, possibly including Rev. James McGregor (PHSI)

Notebook containing notification of registering arms, including residents of Agivey, 1796 – D668/N/1

Notes

In the medieval period, Agivey was a grange of Aghadowey parish. Subsequently, it was recognised as a civil parish.