Qualla: Ballywalter https://qualla.com/ballywalter en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/ballywalter-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ballywalter https://qualla.com/ballywalter Ballywalter: Introduction https://qualla.com/ballywalter/ Photo credit Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0. Read the Freeman's Journal of August 11, 1798, and you find a sentence that captures Ballywalter's whole strange history in one breath. The paper reported that in the little village of Ballywalter, nine men had been killed and thirteen returned wounded after the recent rebellion. 'If a trifling village suffered so much,' the journal asked, 'what must have been the aggregate loss in those parts of the country which were in a state of rebellion?' Ballywalter then had a population perhaps a tenth of what it has today, around 2,000 modern residents. To lose nine men was to lose a generation. The graves are still in Whitechurch graveyard, on the village's northern edge, beside the headstone of a man who emigrated from Scotland in 1606 and died at 90 in 1608.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/ballywalter-wp/gcsn-ballywalter-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ballywalter: Walter's Townland https://qualla.com/ballywalter/ Photo credit Erl Johnston, CC BY-SA 4.0. The village's Irish name is Baile Bhaltair, Walter's townland - a gaelicisation of the Anglo-Norman name Walter or Walterston. Walter was a common given name among the Norman lords who arrived in Ireland in the late twelfth century, and Pope Nicholas IV's tax census of 1291-1292 ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/ballywalter-wp/gcsn-ballywalter-walters-townland.mp3 0:06 2 full Ballywalter: Pike Sunday https://qualla.com/ballywalter/ Photo credit Tony Steed, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the morning of June 10, 1798 - thereafter known as Pike Sunday - a force of United Irishmen marched on Newtownards. They came from Bangor, Donaghadee, Greyabbey and Ballywalter. They were met with musket fire from the market house in the town centre, and among those killed was...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/ballywalter-wp/gcsn-ballywalter-pike-sunday.mp3 0:06 3 full Ballywalter: A Stately Home Open by Appointment https://qualla.com/ballywalter/ Photo credit Whiteabbey, CC BY-SA 4.0. On Ballywalter's southern edge stands Ballywalter Park, the ancestral seat of the 6th Baron Dunleath, a Grade A listed stately home that opens to the public only by appointment. The house and grounds host the annual Northern Ireland Game Fair, which has drawn nearly 40,000 people...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/ballywalter-wp/gcsn-ballywalter-a-stately-home-open-by-appointment.mp3 0:06 4 full Ballywalter: Voyagers and Chefs https://qualla.com/ballywalter/ Photo credit Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two Ballywalter natives stand out as having travelled remarkably far from this small village on a peninsula coast. Thomas Jamison, born here in 1752 or 1753, sailed to New South Wales as a Royal Navy surgeon's mate aboard the First Fleet in 1788 and eventually became a colonial o...

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