placenamesBallygowan
Baile Mhic Gabhann
The congregation’s history places its 1838 building within a changing village landscape.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile Mhic Gabhann · Irish · main form
- Ballygowan · English · main form
Place & story
From outskirts to village centre
Ballygowan Presbyterian Church dates its building to 1838 and describes its original identity as Trinitarian Presbyterian. In the congregation’s account, the church once stood at the village’s edge. Later expansion surrounded it, giving the building a central position in the settlement. The church’s own address distinguishes its Church Hill building from the halls on Comber Road. This is an account of the village associated with Ballygowan townland, rather than a description of the whole townland. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Civil parish
- Comber
- Civil parish
- Killinchy and Islands
- Coordinates
- 54.50417, -5.79697
- Mapped area
- 2.76 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66070 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Ballygowan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Who We Are: history and location of Ballygowan Presbyterian Church · Ballygowan Presbyterian Church
- 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.