Qualla: Ballymoney https://qualla.com/ballymoney en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Ballymoney https://qualla.com/ballymoney Ballymoney: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballymoney/ In the summer of 1718, the people of Ballymoney waved goodbye to five ships. Aboard were Presbyterian ministers and their entire congregations - hundreds of people, families with names like Boyd and McKean and Henry, sailing for New England to begin again. That voyage was at the leading edge of a Scots-Irish migration that would, over the next century, send tens of thousands of Ulster Presbyterians to the American colonies. From Ballymoney's narrow Main Street and the surrounding farmland came shipload after shipload of men and women who would help build the United States. One of them - the son of a Ballymoney emigrant named William McKean - was Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence, twice Chief Justice of Pennsylvania, eventual Governor. The town that sent him out kept on sending. It never quite stopped.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/3/ballymoney-wp/gcg3-ballymoney-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballymoney: The 1637 Tower https://qualla.com/ballymoney/ Ballymoney's oldest surviving building is a single church tower, dating from 1637 - built by Sir Randal MacDonnell on the site of an older bishop's house that had stood since at least 1556 and was destroyed in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The MacDonnells were the dominant Catholi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/3/ballymoney-wp/gcg3-ballymoney-the-1637-tower.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballymoney: Volunteers and United Irishmen https://qualla.com/ballymoney/ From 1778, inspired by the American Revolution they had helped to make happen, the people of Ballymoney took a more radical turn. They drilled in Volunteer militias on the town green. They held political conventions. In 1795 the Society of United Irishmen organised in the town, a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/3/ballymoney-wp/gcg3-ballymoney-volunteers-and-united-irishmen.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballymoney: The Workhouse and the Famine https://qualla.com/ballymoney/ At the height of the Great Famine in 1847, Ballymoney's workhouse held 870 people - vastly over capacity. Families arrived in such numbers that the institution lost the run of itself. Husbands were separated from wives, mothers from children. The inmates were set to demanding wor...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/3/ballymoney-wp/gcg3-ballymoney-the-workhouse-and-the-famine.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballymoney: 12 July 1998: Three Children https://qualla.com/ballymoney/ At about 4:30 in the morning on Sunday 12 July 1998, members of the Ulster Volunteer Force petrol-bombed a house in the Carnany estate on the edge of Ballymoney. A whiskey bottle filled with petrol was thrown through a rear window. The mother of the house, Chrissie Quinn, jumped ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/3/ballymoney-wp/gcg3-ballymoney-12-july-1998-three-children.mp3 0:06 5 full Ballymoney: Dunlops and Diaspora https://qualla.com/ballymoney/ Joey Dunlop won at the Isle of Man TT a record twenty-six times. They called him the King of the Road, and when he died in 2000 racing in Estonia, fifty thousand people came to Ballymoney for the funeral. His brother Robert Dunlop was killed in practice at the North West 200 in 2...

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