Blaris Civil Parish, County Down

Surnames/tags: Blaris Down Ulster

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This information page for the Civil Parish contains a list of all the townlands in the parish and links to the category for the townland (if it has been created). There also may be notes about the individual townlands.

This page is maintained by the County Down team

Contents 1 Blaris Civil Parish 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Population Centres of Blaris Civil Parish 1.2.1 Lisburn City 1.2.2 Maze 1.2.3 Ravernet 1.3 The Townlands of Blaris Civil Parish 2 Resources 2.1 External Resources 2.2 Townland Category Information Boxes 3 Version Notes 4 Sources

Blaris Civil Parish

Irish or Alternate Name: Bláras.

Logainm Link: Blaris Parish on Logainm.ie

PlacenamesNI Link: Blaris Parish on PlacenamesNI.org

Baronies: Castlereagh Upper, Iveagh Lower, Upper Half

Province: Ulster

Introduction

Blaris Civil Parish is split across County Antrim and County Down with the City of Lisburn occupying a large part of the Antrim portion of the parish. The Down portion of Blaris parish has an area of 31.8 km² or 12.3 square miles.

The Lagan river runs through the parish and divides the County Antrim and County Down portions, apart from a section near the centre of Lisburn where the county border continues south when the river bends westwards and then heads west to rejoin the river cutting through a section of Largymore townland and a small sliver of Ballymullan townland and making them part of County Antrim. It is likely this was a historic county boundary change made in the 19th century.^[1]

Blaris Civil Parish spans the historic baronies of Massereene Upper in County Antrim and Castlereagh Upper and Iveagh Lower, Upper Half in County Down. The Irish name is Bláras, meaning "a field".^[2]

Population Centres of Blaris Civil Parish

Note: Population centres for this Parish, where known, are shown here. For a full list see Towns of County Down

Lisburn City

Irish or Alternate Name: Lios na gCearrbhach.

WikiTree Category: Category for Lisburn City

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Lisburn is a city 8 mi/13 km southwest of Belfast city centre. Lisburn was originally a town that grew up around Lisnagarvy townland in Blaris parish. It later became a borough and was granted city status in 2002.^[3] Lisburn city includes Lisnagarvy, Tonagh, Old Warren, Knockmore and parts of Largymore and Teraghafeeva townlands in the Antrim portion of Blaris parish. Use Category:Lisburn_City,_Ireland for profiles of people from Lisburn city.

Maze

Irish or Alternate Name: An Mhaigh.

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Ravernet

Irish or Alternate Name: Ráth Bhearnait.

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3km S of Lisburn

The Townlands of Blaris Civil Parish

The townlands in Blaris Parish (Bláras) are those taken from Blaris Parish on Logainm.ie and validated against townlands on Townlands.ie, PlacenamesNI.org where appropriate, Griffiths valuations data and the 1901 and 1911 censuses. A link is provided in the notes for the 1901 and 1911 census. Please note that these may not always work if the townland was not available on the census in question. The census site may also substitute a similar name so be prepared for unexpected results!

If the townland has a category it will be linked in the table below. If there is no link and you need the category please contact David to get the category created or put in a request for the category to be created. Alternatively, if you feel condifent to do so, see Townland Category Information Boxes below for how to create them yourself.

Townland	Irish/Alternate name	WikiTree Category Link	Notes
Aghnatrisk	Achadh na Triosca		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Annacloy	Áth na Cloiche		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Ballintine	Baile an tSiáin		1901 Census, 1911 Census Part of Ballintine townland is now part of the City of Lisburn
Ballykeel Edenagonnell	An Baile Caol		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Ballymullan	Baile Uí Mhaoláin		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Blaris	Bláras		1901 Census, 1911 Census Part of Blaris townland is now part of the City of Lisburn
Carnbane	An Carn Bán		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Carnreagh	An Carn Riabhach	Category:Carnreagh Townland, Blaris Parish, County Down	1901 Census, 1911 Census
Culcavy	Cúil Chobha	Category:Culcavy Townland, Blaris Parish, County Down	1901 Census, 1911 Census
Drumatihugh	Dromainn Tí­ Aodha		1901 Census, 1911 Census There is an error with the mapping on Townlands.ie. One part is duplicated instead of showing the two parts/
Duneight	Dún Eachdach	Category: Duneight Townland, Blaris Parish, County Down	1901 Census, 1911 Census
Largymore	An Leargaidh Mhór	Category:Largymore Townland, Blaris Parish, County Down	1901 Census, 1911 Census Largymore is mainly in Co. Down but it includes a portion which, though lying east of the river Lagan, is now included in County Antrim. Part of Largymore townland in County Down is now part of the City of Lisburn.
Lisnatrunk	lios		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Lisnoe	Lios na gCnó	Category:Lisnoe Townland, Blaris Parish, County Down	1901 Census, 1911 Census
Magherageery	Machaire na gCaorach		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Maze	An Mhaigh		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Ravernet	Ráth Bhearnait		1901 Census, 1911 Census
Taghnabrick	Teach Bric	Category: Taghnabrick Townland, Blaris Parish, County Down	1901 Census, 1911 Census

Resources

External Resources

• A list of external resources for this parish may be placed here. More general souces for Down should be added to the main Down page.

Whilst care is taken to ensure links are not made to disreputable, phishing or other sites of doubtful integrity it is your responsibility to ensure that you are not going to such a site by clicking on one of the links which may have been added after this page was created.

Townland Category Information Boxes

For the full 'How to' on creating Irish location categories please read 'Creating Location Categories for Ireland'

The pre-formatted line for each townland and the fully formatted CIB header can be seen below this page when in edit mode. Please ensure you have read the 'How to' before doing anything. Briefly, the pre-formatted line in the hidden text is used to replace the line above. The CIB text is pasted into the category which is created by clicking on the red category link.

Version Notes

Parish format version 3.3. Team links in CIBs now implemented.

Sources

Information shown on this page may have been sourced from one or more of the following sources.

• Logainm.ie The Placenames Database of Ireland created by Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge in collaboration with The Placenames Branch (Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht).
• Placenamesni.org a UK Government website managed by the Information Unit of Land & Property Services (LPS) Agency, Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP)
• Griffiths Valuation AskAboutIreland.ie and the Cultural Heritage Project is an initiative of public libraries together with local museums and archives.
• Townlands.ie Irish Townlands derived from OpenStreetMap data under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).
• Census of Ireland 1901/1911 and Census fragments and substitutes, 1821-51
• List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland and List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
• General alphabetical index to townlands and towns, parishes and baronies of Ireland Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

1. ↑ Northern Ireland Place-name Project. Largymore, County Antrim. http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=35080
2. ↑ Northern Ireland Place-name Project. Blaris Parish (Antrim portion), County Antrim. http://www.placenamesni.org/resultdetails.php?entry=18395
3. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Lisburn," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisburn