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Antrim / Re: John Neeson of 4 Ballybollen Road
« on: Tuesday 05 October 21 23:17 BST (UK) »
I live in Ahoghill so I know the area. Up until the roads were named, probably around 1975 the spelling was Aughtercloney. After that time what I knew as the Cloney Road was renamed the Clooney Road. The Ballybollan Road confused me as it was only named as such around 1975, before than we only talked about townlands, an address could have been Ballybollan, Ahoghill. I was very friendly with a man who was very much into Irish and townlands etc. He told me that when the Government was naming roads etc they went back into the Irish language but many of their spellings were wrong. I know of one road which has one spelling at one end and a different spelling at the other end.