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Ballyhanedin is a townland in the civil parish of Banagher in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is located a 3km from the village of Feeny.〔(C6106 : Ballyhanedin Townland 3 km from Feeny, Ireland ) online at geograph.org.uk (accessed 3 March 2008)〕〔(Banagher, Derry: Townlands or streets ) at ireland.com/ancestor/fuses/townlands (accessed 3 March 2008)〕 It lies on the A6 Belfast to Derry road.〔(The Munreery Climbing Lane ) online at roadimprovements.roadsni.gov.uk (accessed 3 March 2008)〕 Although it is only a townland, Ballyhanedin has a boundary sign which shows where it begins.〔(C5711 View south-east from Ballyhanedin 5 km from Claudy, Ireland ), showing ''Ballyhanedin'' sign and drum gateposts, online at geograph.org.uk (accessed 3 March 2008)〕 ==History== The townland was settled in the seventeenth century by the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers of the City of London. A report in the Company's archives reports a deputation which surveyed its Estates in 1820:〔(Banagher Presbyterian ) online at historyfromheadstones.com (accessed 3 March 2008)〕 The Court of the Fishmongers' Company decided to build two new Presbyterian Church meeting houses in the Classical Greek style, with dressings of Dungiven sandstone. The Court voted £2,200 for the building at Banagher, which was constructed over three years and opened in 1834.〔 An Ordnance Survey memoir of Banagher from the 1830s, says that the new meeting house was:〔 Griffith's valuation of Ireland, completed in 1864, shows some thirty tenements in Ballyhanedin, including one occupied by the Reverend Robert Rogers. The other surnames of those then occupying property in the township were Allen, Brazil, Christie, Cole, Connor, Dogherty, Duddy, Evans, Hewston, Lyons, McClusky, McKeever, McLenihan, McLoughlin, Monteith, Mulfawl, Nutt, Rosborough (eight tenements), Sherrard, Simpson, Walker and Williams.〔(Griffith's valuation ) of Ireland for Banagher, County Derry, online at failteromhat.com (accessed 3 March 2008)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballyhanedin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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