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Ballyaghlis

Baile na hEachlaisce

Ballyaghlis Lodge preserves an early nineteenth-century farmhouse, its developing courtyard and a later connection with Lisburn’s linen industry.

Recorded locationBallyaghlis54.51636° N · 5.97686° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homestead

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

  • Baile na hEachlaisce · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Ballyaghlis · English · main form
  • Ballyaughlis · English · main form · local name

Place & story

Belvedere Cottage

Ballyaghlis Lodge began as Belvedere Cottage on the Belvedere estate. It appears under that name on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. The earlier townland valuation names Henry Hardman as occupier and values the house and outbuildings at £14 16 s. The property therefore survives in both mapped and valuation records from the early nineteenth century. [2]

A growing courtyard farmstead

The farmhouse has a symmetrical three-bay front, timber sash windows and a fanlight above its central doorway. Behind this formal elevation, outbuildings accumulated during the nineteenth century, eventually enclosing a courtyard. The heritage survey identifies surviving pegged roof trusses among them. The group combines a Georgian domestic frontage with the working buildings of a rural property. [2]

People & connections

The linen connection

Edward S. Clarke moved into the house in 1926. He was managing director of the Island Spinning Mill in Lisburn, giving the property a connection with the Lagan Valley’s linen industry. The name Ballyaughlis Lodge appears on the 1938 Ordnance Survey map, replacing the earlier Belvedere Cottage. The house and its outbuildings were listed in 1984. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Population centre
County
Down
Civil parish
Drumbeg
Coordinates
54.51636, -5.97686 (approximate)
Logainm ID
1413108 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Ballyaghlis. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Ballyaghlis Lodge, Historic Buildings HB19/23/042 · Department for Communities, Historic Buildings

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.