Lieutenancy Northern Ireland: | Antrim |
Country: | Northern Ireland |
Official Name: | Cromkill |
Civil Parish: | Connor |
Cromkill (from Irish Crom Choill, meaning 'the sloping wood'[1] [2]) is a townland in County Antrim, just south of Ballymena.[3] It borders Ballee to the north, Slaght to the west and Ballycowan to the east.[4]
The townland first appears in a taxation letter of 1605 under the name 'Ballycronekill', with the form 'Cromkill' first appearing in 1669. The oldest surviving buildings in the townland are a collection of houses on the Cockhill Road, which date from circa 1830.[5] Cromkill is recorded in the 1911 census of Ireland as having 294 residents, mostly Presbyterian.