placenamesCraigy Hill
Cnoc Bhaile Creige
A builder’s hut became the starting point for a church supported by children across Ireland.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cnoc Bhaile Creige · Irish · main form · validated name
- Craigy Hill · English · main form
Place & story
A congregation for a new estate
Craigy Hill’s Presbyterian congregation began as the Larne housing estate developed. Its own history traces the beginning to December 1955, when fourteen children and a small group of adults met with the Reverend Bill Boyd in a builder’s hut. Worship moved to a wooden hall on Linn Road and subsequently to a permanent church on Churchill Road. The chosen site lay between the Craigy Hill and Antiville estates. [2]
Children’s contributions and the Getty Hall
Sunday schools and youth organisations across the Presbyterian Church in Ireland helped finance the new church, contributing almost £20,000. The later Getty Memorial Hall opened in 1967. Its funding included compensation for a demolished mission hall in Larne’s Mill Street area, which had itself benefited from the nineteenth-century bequest of John Getty. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Glenarm Upper
- Civil parish
- Larne
- Coordinates
- 54.90217, -5.94196 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135751 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Craigy Hill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Who We Are: Our History · Craigy Hill Presbyterian Church
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.