Town and Parish of Kilrea, county Derry: Local history notes

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*Signpost for the town of Kilrea on the Bann Road, nine miles north of the town*. Photograph and edits by Alison Kilpatrick ©2003. All rights reserved.

“Kilrea, a market and post-town, and a parish, partly in the barony of Coleraine, but chiefly in that of Loughinsholin, county of Londonderry, and province of Ulster, 28 miles (S.E.) from Londonderry, and 110 (N.) of Dublin, on the roads leading respectively from Coleraine to Portglenone and Castle Dawson, and from Garvagh to Ballymoney; containing 4,262 inhabitants, of which number, 973 are in the town.
— Extract from A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, by Samuel Lewis, 1837.

Kilrea, from the Irish: Cill Ria, trans. (uncertain), church of the journey or way.

Introduction :

These local history notes for the town and parish of Kilrea run through the end of 1852, which year corresponds with the end of the Great Famine. There are a few exceptions, for example, transcriptions of reports, commissioned by Parliament, about The Irish Society and the Mercers’ Company, which were published later in the 19th century. In addition, the timelines section contains information about events touching the neighbouring parish of Tamlaght O’Crilly.

Index :

The topics are presented in alphabetical order: —

Bann Navigation
Before the Plantation
Biographical sketches
Blog articles
Churches
Court reports
Diseases and epidemics, 1831–1851
Gazetteers
Government commissions
Maps:
- Kilrea, Lislea, and Tamlaght, in mid-eastern co. Derry (1883)
Newspaper transcripts
Poverty and the Poor Law
Pynnar’s Survey of Ulster, 1618–1619: Movanagher
Schools, 1835
Temperance
The Honourable the Irish Society
The Worshipful Company of Mercers
Timelines for the parishes of Kilrea and Tamlaght O’Crilly

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