Do you think any of your Family Ancestors may have once lived in this area?

• Were they perhaps born near here

• or possibly baptised here?

• or did their weddings take place in Ballyscullion Church?

• Are their remains buried in the Ballyscullion Graveyard?

This web-site could be a useful start to people who are researching their ancestors from the Bellaghy district in Northern Ireland. Many Ulster people have left this country over the centuries with the Americas, Australia and New Zealand being favoured destinations. Some left to escape the sometimes dreary climate, some under duress by the courts, some to escape pestilence and famine and some to simply join friends and make their fortune in new lands. Whatever the individual reason, those people left important ancestral history here in Northern Ireland.

We, at Ballyscullion Parish Church always welcome e-mails and letters from genuinely interested people who think that their relatives may have a former connection with Bellaghy or any of the local townlands (Ballydermot, Ballymacombs Beg, Ballymacombs More, Ballynease-Helton, Ballynease-Macpeake, Ballynease-Strain, Ballyscullion West, Drumanee Lower, Drumanee Upper, East Glebe, Edenreagh, Intake, Killyberry, Killyberry Boyd, Killyberry Downing, Leitrim, Mullaghboy, Old Town Downing, Old Town Deer Park, Tamlaghtduff, Tamniaran and West Glebe, etc.)

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Please feel free to use our E-mail service for further advice - secretary@ballyscullion.com