Place:Tullaghore, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Historical description

Extracts pertaining to local and historical information are taken from a Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis published in 1837.

TULLAGHORE, TULLACHGOR, or TULLOGHGOR, a parish, in the barony of UPPER DUNLUCE, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, adjoining the town of Ballymoney: the population is returned with the parish of that name, into which Tullaghore has merged. It comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 432 1/2 statute acres. Here is said to have been formerly a religious house, over which St. Nehemias presided in the time of St. Patrick.