placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Ballydown
A county plant register preserves a dated bee orchid observation from this Islandmagee locality.
Recorded locationBallydown54.83250° N · 5.76489° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Ballydown · English · main form
Place & story
Bee orchids recorded in 1926
The County Antrim vascular plant register lists a bee orchid record from Ballydown, Islandmagee, made by D. Donaldson in 1926. Its location note states that the quarry had been filled in by 1981. The register describes bee orchids as plants of habitats including calcareous pasture and quarry spoil, where other vegetation can eventually crowd them out. The Ballydown entry preserves evidence of an earlier quarry habitat; it does not establish that bee orchids survive there today or explain why this particular site was filled. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Lower
- Civil parish
- Island Magee
- Coordinates
- 54.83250, -5.76489
- Mapped area
- 0.78 km²
- Logainm ID
- 61619 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
63People recorded
18Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Montgomery 10
- Ross 8
- McCalmont 6
- Fleck 5
- Jackson 5
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballydown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- County Antrim: Scarce, Rare and Extinct Vascular Plant Register and Checklist of Species (2006), page 114 · Stan Beesley and Paul Hackney; general editor Julia Nunn; National Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.