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Ballymacrevan - Camlin Parish
Cherry Valley
The following is an extract from the "Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland. Parishes of County Antrim VII 1832 - 1838". Thanks to The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast for permission to use this extract.
Parish of Camlin
Gentlemen's Seats
Cherry valley, the residence of Charles Armstrong Esquire, J.P., agent to the Honorable Colonel Pakenham, is a modern and gentleman - like 2- storey house, pleasantly situated in the town land of Ballymacrevan near the shore of Lough Neagh, and 1 and one-eighth miles west of Crumlin. It commands a tolerable (crossed out: beautiful) view of Lough Neagh and its distant shores. There is a good deal of planting and some old oaks (apparently natural timber) about the house.
At Cherry Valley are a few old oaks, evidently the remains of the natural woods. It is within memory of some old people since there (were) more evident vestiges of natural wood, and Boate, in his Natural history of Ireland, says, "There were in his time great forests in the county Antrim, particularly in Killultagh" (the manor in which this parish is included.
Cherry Valley, the residence of John Armstrong, Esquire…
John Armstrong, Cherry Valley
There is a headstone in Glenavy Parish Church relating to John Armstrong of Cherry Valley. It reads:
ERECTED
By
JOHN ARMSTRONG. Esq.
OF
Cherry Valley.
A.D. 1819.
In memory of
GLENCAIRN DALRYMPLE.
Widow of General Stair Park Dalrymple.
Who departed this life Augt 1816.
ALSO IN MEMORY OF
CHARLES WILLIAM ARMSTRONG,
LATE OF CHERRY VALLEY ESQ. J.P.
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 8TH OF FEBRUARY 1858. IN THE
53rd YEAR OF HIS AGE.
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