History of Magherafelt by W. H. Maitland (RB243)

Published 1988: Softcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

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Excerpt from History of Magherafelt

About the year 1615 the Salters' Co. Sent over an agent and workmen to commence building a Manor House and Bawn, and other preliminary works for planting their estate with settlers.

To ensure that the County might not in future be peopled wholly with Irish, the Irish Society (which was the parent Society) re solved to send out twelve boys from Christ's Hospital, together with other poor, to be apprenticed, and the settlers were precluded from taking, Irish apprentices.

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The Town of Magherafelt -
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In this case study I have assembled a number of sources for the town of Magherafelt from the 1830s to the early 1900s. Some sources relate to the whole town and two [the 1901Census Returns and the Griffith's Revision Books] relate particularly to Broad Street. The town of Magherafelt is the largest urban locality in the barony and the administrative centre of the Magherafelt Poor Law Union.

Despite rising during the decade 1831/41, the population fell by 11% during the Famine decade of 1841/51. During the 1851/61decade the population fell by a further 7%, before recovering during the years from 1861 to 1881, rising 8% each decade. Between 1881 and 1901 the population declined and by 1901 the town's population was almost the same as it had been back in 1851. Such a pattern of population growth and decline was not unusual in small towns in the west of Ulster particularly during the second half of the nineteenth century. There appears to be some movement of people from the countryside as the locality recovers from the Famine. However, most of the people coming out of the countryside usually went to Belfast or further afield to Britain and America. Towns such as Magherafelt were not able to generate sufficient employment opportunities during the second half of the nineteenth century to attract these emigrants.

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