Ballypriormore Cemetery
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Ballypriormore Cemetery

Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

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    Larne, County Antrim Northern Ireland
    Coordinates: 54.83466, -5.74023
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This graveyard in the townland of Ballypriormore and parish of Islandmagee. It is readily visible being situated on a low hill about 200 yards west of the road to Brown's Bay, a mile and a half south-east of the latter. According to local tradition, the site was originally a Danish burial place and the Danes brought over a shipload of their native soil to hallow it (Donaldson - History of Islandmagee). An early Christian altar vessel was found in the ruins about the middle of the last century with the inscription "Or Do M(ac)etain Av Brolchain" - "A prayer for MacEtain O'Brolchain" (O'Laverty, 3, 141).
The church was the principal church in Islandmagee at the Taxation of Pope Nicholas ( 1306 ), the peninsula then being known as Ransevyn. The foundations were removed finally about 1830. Presumably the church fell into disuse after the Reformation and a new edifice was built at Ballyharry in 1595. There also were churches in medieval times at Ballykeel, where the walls and graveyard survive, and at Port Muck, Kilcoan, Ballydun and Templeneffin of which even the sites are scarcely traceable (O'Laverty).

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This graveyard in the townland of Ballypriormore and parish of Islandmagee. It is readily visible being situated on a low hill about 200 yards west of the road to Brown's Bay, a mile and a half south-east of the latter. According to local tradition, the site was originally a Danish burial place and the Danes brought over a shipload of their native soil to hallow it (Donaldson - History of Islandmagee). An early Christian altar vessel was found in the ruins about the middle of the last century with the inscription "Or Do M(ac)etain Av Brolchain" - "A prayer for MacEtain O'Brolchain" (O'Laverty, 3, 141).
The church was the principal church in Islandmagee at the Taxation of Pope Nicholas ( 1306 ), the peninsula then being known as Ransevyn. The foundations were removed finally about 1830. Presumably the church fell into disuse after the Reformation and a new edifice was built at Ballyharry in 1595. There also were churches in medieval times at Ballykeel, where the walls and graveyard survive, and at Port Muck, Kilcoan, Ballydun and Templeneffin of which even the sites are scarcely traceable (O'Laverty).

http://www.irishgenealogy.net/forum/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2321


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