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The PRICE name ultimately derives from the Welsh descendant term "ap REES".
Such meaning "out of REES".

[c.f. Scots Gaelic "mac" DONALD" or "nic" DONALD".
 Such  meaning "son" or "daughter" of DONALD.]

Worth keeping in mind for your further (backward) research?
[Advise keeping an eye out for RICE ...]

Hi emcquiston,

We've got a copy of  the book here:

THE HIDDEN GRAVEYARD
CARNMONEY PARISH CHURCH
ISBN 978-0-9561374-0-1

MEMORIALS IN GRAVEYARD No.1
Recorded & Published by Members of the Newtownabbey Branch
of the North of Ireland Family History Society.
pps. 144 total.

[Seen those folks in action many times, dedicated industrious skilled people.
 The book is a power of work, a MUST HAVE for those interested in genealogical connections to the area.
 Lots of history, photos, memorial listings for WWI & WWII participants, maps, indexes of surnames & placenames, etc.
 'Tis a wonder to behold!]

The "hidden" graveyard is indeed located immediately (South) across Church Road from the church.
[So called 'cos it was totally overgrown for years, some parts being impenetrable.
 Graves are meant to be maintained by surviving family, but these drift away and perish themselves.
 A number of years ago the Council stepped in and blitzed the whole place with "Agent Orange".
 I thought that I had entered a war zone!]

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pps 17-25 contain an alphabetical list of all surnames that could be transcribed ​from the memorial stones.
[N.B. Some plots had no memorials, either originally or they were "lost" to posterity.
      Others were unreadable because of weathering or damage.
      Others had fallen over (dangerous to explore, even for experienced speliologists).]

p.21  Lists two PRITCHARD grave references -  E/A38 (p.85)  &  J/B12  (p.114).


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p.26 Shows the layout map for the SECTIONs within the "Hidden" (aka No.1) graveyard.

Stand at the entrance (on the South side of Church Road).
Looking South (straight down), then scan from right (West) to left (East).

The SECTIONs ("ground blocks") are arranged roughly in horizontal rows, labelled:

"A" near the entrance at the top;
"B", "C", "D", "E" & "F" (which latter runs right down to the bottom);
"G" (situate East of "B", and South  of "C", "D" & "E";
"H", "J", "K", "L";
"M" (right at the bottom.).

[There is no "I".
 Perhaps, Theologically, it was deemed inappropriate to use Jesus' initial in a graveyard context?
    ("I" in Latin, as in the derogatory "INRI".)
 More prosaically, Typographically, to avoid a character that could be confused with the numeric digit "1".
   So, e.g. a reference of J/I12 might cause folks to waste time looking for grave 112 in instead of 12.]

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p.26
To get to SECTION "E" simply follow the short path down through SECTION "A" to the cross-roads.
Turn left (East) past the top of SECTION "D", which lies on the right (South).
You will pass (what looks like) a wall
  (deduced from the solid black line running N-S on the map).
SECTION "E" now lies on your right (South), stretching along to the corner of the path.

p.77

SECTION "E" is split simply in to 5-off vertical columns
  [Each designated by a non-numeric alphabetic character]:

Column "A" (graves A1-A58; First visible memorial A1 McILVEEN)
Column "B" (graves B1-B54; First visible memorial B1 REILLY)
Column "C" (graves C1-C58; First visible memorial C1 TINSLEY)
Column "D" (graves D1-D50; First visible memorial D3 HARKNESS)
Column "E" (graves E1-E49; First visible memorial E1 HUNT)

Your interest will be in Column "A".
 [The 1st (most-Western) one that you will encounter, immediately next to the "wall".]
The grave reference "E/A38" means SECTION "E" - Column "A" - Grave "38".


Now some "Maths":  38 (yours) / 58 (last) ~ 40/60 = 2/3.
So the grave is located ~2/3 down (South) from the top;
[N.B This is a guesstimate.
 Some graves are "longer" than others, especially large family graves.]


You could either:

1) walk down along the "wall" (if that is indeed what it is)  [Not advised!];

2) tiptoe down along the left (East) side of the "wall" through/past the other 37 graves;

3) walk further East along the path to the corner,
     turn right (South) and walk 2/3 down the path
       (such running down the Eastern side of SECTION "E"),
     turn right (West) and then tiptoe through fewer (viz. 4) graves (Columns E,D,C,B).

4) for geographical guidance, if standing on the Eastern path of SECTION "E",
     look Westward in the immediate Column "E" (and then over to Column "A") for
     E/E23 (STEELE, Stone no Surround),
     E/E26 (MAGILL, Tall black stone.),
     E/E38 (WILSON, Stone and Surround 1895).

5) in this case you need to be looking for a tall stone with metal railings
      E/A38 (PRITCHARD) in this furthest (Western-most) column, next the "wall".
     [E/A42 (MILLAR, metal plaque with railings) lies closeby North of it.]


[N.B. There appears to be no (offical) path along the bottom of SECTION "E".]


The surnames present on the memorials are listed alphabetically in the book.
[For SECTION "E" they cover pps. 77-88
 There are 3 fallen stones.]

(to be continued next)

Pablo1,

You could consider donating your (obviously copious) research scribble diaries in to the safe custody of PRONI/UHF/NIFHS?

Perhaps not Sentry Hill.
[We've just learnt that "Mr. McKINNEY" (aka Wesley BONAR), having been on furlough for a long time while the venue was closed to the public, has accepted an offer to "retire" from his long role there. Sad, sad, sad.

Capt. Jock

Gilby,

Yep, thats right.
(vol.32 p33 as above)

Guess it was known as "DALWAY's other bawn".
[Probably to stop him being being jibed with "DALWAY ... has only got one bawn".]

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Perhaps I was a tad harsh on old Phil of TT (who we all love of course!).
[I was only reporting what I heard from a colleague who had worked with him.
 They, the other diggers, inspiringly thought that they performed best when he was outstanding in his (own) field.]

His accent would have fitted in well around Ballynure.
[Many of Elizabeth I's venturous captains hailed from the West Country (of England).
 Such "twang" underlies the Belfast patois to this day.
  e.g. Francis DRAKE, Walter RALEIGH & John CHICHESTER,
 then his successor, his brother Arthur CHICHESTER.
 The latter was granted extensive lands around Belfast.
 His descendants became Lords Donegall.
 Sir Francis CHICHESTER, first solo circumnavigator of the World,
 hails from this family stable, near Barnstable in Devon.

 [Official title in the peerage being "Inishowen and Fisherwick".
  This latter deriving from the SKEFFINGTON family, Lords Masserene and Ferrard,
  who'd married in to the CLOTWORTHYs at Antrim Castle.
  Lord Donegall bought their estate/mansion in Staffordshire,
  in the run up to the 1801 Union of the British/Irish Parliaments.
  In order to sit in the British Parliament you had to own a "seat" within its lands.

  The expense in buying/developing this Fisherwick holding bankrupted the Donegalls.
  Their estate office / hunting lodge at Doagh (near Ballyclare) is named after it.

  Interestingly, there is a small peninsula in Inishowen named Doagh.
  Inishowen is the large peninsula lying to the West of Lough Foyle & beyond in Co. Donegal.
  The CHICHESTERs acquired lands there after Cahir O'DOHERTY's disastrous uprising,
  becoming the largest land holders in Ireland.]

https://www.theirishstory.com/2015/03/27/nineteenth-century-landlords-of-greater-buncrana/#.YF-a3dpxeUk


 Ian Campbell Ross Jonathan SWIFT, the famous author of Gulliver's Travels,
 started his "church" career as a prebendary priest minding the cure of Kilroot
 preaching at the small (now ruined, CoI) church at Ballynure.
 His father, a lawyer, a Royalist in the Civil War, hailed from Goodrich, Herefordshire.
 He scarpered to Dublin to escape persecution, dying there just before his only son was born in late 1667.]

https://www.tcd.ie/trinitywriters/assets/pdf/Jonathan%20Swift%20Dec%2019%202015.pdf
https://en.geneastar.org/genealogy/jonathanswiftj/jonathan-swift

Capt. Jock

Gilby,

Yes, 'tis time to bring back the TT experience a.s.a.p. to Norn Iron.
[My old grandad used to act as marshall for it in the 1950-1960s, as well as for the go-karting!]


Only teasing - you meant the more "Earthy" stuff.
[Where there's muck there's brass (or hopefully gold)!]

This URL shows the geographical connection between
  Dalway's Bawn & Castle Dobbs (near Ballycarry village / Carrickfergus town)
  Castlehill (near Ballynure village).

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bpe8-Lbybks/TL1yrY7mG7I/AAAAAAAAASY/4ycfBWB8ksw/s1600/clements+hill.jpg

[Such was one of the many offerings produced from throwing ' "dalway's bawn" +map' in to a BING search.]



Pretty sure that the TT series has run its run.
[Though "The Big Dig" seems to be a follow on ...]

There were a few episodes from NI, most notably at () Dundrum Castle, O'Neill's Castle and Dunseverick (Iron Age roundhouses).

The Dundrum evacuation unexpectedly uncovered a "cashell" (an early Irish Christian church).
[Unfortunately, no "stash of cash" - the Leprechauns had moved the end of the rainbow elsewhere the day before.]

This was the place that John de COURCY established his first foothold in Ulster.
He was married to Affreca, daughter of the King of Man and the Isles.
[Expect (c.f. today's revelations from Harry & Meghan) that there was much speculation at that time about what colour of skin their offspring might proudly exhibit ...]

My legs have been slowly descending back in to Africa (the land of our ultimate origins) for years now.
[Probably due to too much imbibing of the Devil's Buttermilk!]


As a homage to Geneva, a city open and welcoming to the oppressed, Les Freres Papinot have released a new product (a strong dark beer) to celebrate BLM.
Long-life to Liberty!
https://calvinus.ch/en/our-beers/noire/
[Goodness knows how he got that face tan.
 The only time I visited the city I couldn't even see the fountains, let alone the mountains!
 So, after John KNOX's old church slammed their doors, I amused myself with exploring the souterains ...]

Such followed the death by drowning in the lake of a slave who was trying to escape from humiliating display in the City's market in 1556.
From the cathedral pulpit, CALVIN launched a vibrant call to make Geneva the world emblem of tolerance and respect for human dignity.

"Post Tenebras, Lux!"    (Trans: "After the Darkness, Light!")
[Slogan of The Rennaissance & The Reformation(s).]

"Post Tenebras, Dignitas".     (Trans: "After the Darkness, Dignity!")
[Slogan of CALVIN (?), Les Freres Papinot  (and BLM sympathizers now?).]

BRILLIANT!
[Wish I'd been at the Product Marketing brainstorming meeting ...]

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I talked to someone once who'd worked alongside the big TT fellow.

He was reported as having two overriding characteristics in the field:
  a) Profligacy with Saxon swear words;
  b) Spectacular rift valley clearing technique, using aerosol particles.

Other diggers vied to ensure that he kept his head in the sand and that they were situate upwind from him when he talked thru' his other major orifice!

Capt. Jock

P.S. There is as fine photo of Dalway's Bawn on P.15 in Ernie SCOTT's erudite A5-sized book on the local history:

 "Ballynure, History and Happenings in the village over the past Four Hundred Years"
 Ernest McAlister SCOTT
 Shanway Press  2004 (Reprinted 2008). pp. 119


The caption there also refers to the Bellaghy Bawn, now a museum and tribute center to the poet Seamus HEANEY.
[Bellaghy is a townland lying roughly mid-way between Ballymena & Ballymoney, just West of the main road, within the parish of Rasharkin. Interesting to learn that the head of one of the London merchant companies (JONES) was based in Co. Antrim (such county, supposedly, NOT being part of the Plantation).]

P.P.S.

"The foundations of a castle built by John DALWAY, a cornet under Walter Devereux in Essex's army, are to be seen in Castletown, about 1 mile north east of Ballynure.
...
The castle was erected about 1609."


Ref: p.33
The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland. Vol.32
PARISHES OF COUNTY ANTRIM XII
1832~3, 1835~40
Ballynure and District

The Institute of Irish Studies
The Queen's University of Belfast

Pub. 1995
ISBN 0-85389-552-X PPI


Sounds just like a place that the Belfast Naturalist Field Club (?) might have visited on their sojourns. Joseph BIGGAR and William Fee McKINNEY were enthusiastic members. Check out Linenhall Library, Ulster Museum, newspapers ...?

Was it a (modest) castle or a fortified cattle enclosure (aka "bawn") ?

Did DALWAY not get around to finishing off the walls with whitewash as well as DOBBS?