Ballynahinch (Down)
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Ballynahinch Baile na hInse |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 24 ′ N , 5 ° 54 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 5703 (as of 2011) | ||
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| prefix | 028 | ||
| Part of the country | Northern Ireland | ||
| Shire county | County Down | ||
Ballynahinch ( Irish : Baile na hInse , German: "Settlement of the island / the water meadow") is a Northern Irish town in County Down . It has 5703 inhabitants (2011 Census). The district since 2015 is Newry, Morne and Down .
Ballynahinch was traditionally a market town and is located on the A24 from Belfast to Newcastle 15 miles south of Belfast.
history
Until the 17th century, the region was controlled by the McCartan clan . In 1650, Patrick McCartan sold land around Ballynahinch to Sir George Rawdon and Sir William Petty, a Hampshire overseer . Sir George, soon the sole owner, built two grain mills and founded the town with a market square. In 1683 Charles II of England granted the patent for a Thursday market and two annual markets. Scottish Protestant settlers enlarged the city. John Rawdon, Earl of Moira , established a residence at Montalto House in Ballynahinch. He introduced the linen market and built the market house.
The Society of United Irishmen rebelled against English rule in 1798, starting from Leinster ( Irish Rebellion of 1798 ). The Battle of Ballynahinch began on June 12, 1798 with a siege of 4,000 Irish by the British Army. After a day-long bombardment, the Irish withdrew and 36 houses were burned down. Irish commandant Henry Munro was captured and executed soon after. The fighter Betsy Gray also died and was later heroized for it.
Montalto and Ballynahinch were sold to David Ker Esquire in 1802, who took advantage of the growing tourist fashion for water vacations to develop a medical spa out of town.
On February 23, 1920, the barracks of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) in Ballynahinch was the target of a bomb attack by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).
On October 16, 1986, Catholics Terence Mullan, aged 31, and Kathleen Mullan, 79, were shot dead by the Ulster Freedom Fighters at their home on Dromore Road in Ballynahinch.
literature
- Peter Carr: Portavo - an Irish Townland and its Peoples (to the David Kers family)
- Part 1: Earliest times - 1844 , The White Row Press 2003 ISBN 1 870 132 11 4
- Part 2: The Famine to the Present , The White Row Press 2005 ISBN 1 870 132 21 1
Web links
Personalities
Single receipts
- ^ Montalto Estate. Retrieved November 27, 2019 .
- ^ William J. Roulston: Researching Scots-Irish Ancestors: The Essential Genealogical Guide to Early Modern Ulster . Ed .: Ulster Historical Foundation. Belfast 2006, p. 7 ( google.de ).
- ↑ Battle of Ballynahinch - misguided chivalry of leader Munro. ireland-calling.com, accessed November 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Deirdre Armstrong: The Heart of Down . Doneghadee 2000.
- ↑ Mike Rast: Tactics, Politics, and Propaganda in the Irish War of Independence, 1917-1921 . Ed .: Georgia state University. 2011, p. 83 ( gsu.edu ).
- ^ Chronology of the Conflict. CAIN, accessed November 27, 2019 .