The name Killultagh is used in three senses. First, it is the name of a townland in the parish of Ballinderry containing less than 700 acres, the fuller form of which is Derrykillultagh. Secondly, there was the territory of Killultagh ('Manor of Killultagh'), an old term which is found long before the division into baronies and counties. Thirdly it is a District Electoral Area within Lisburn and Castlereagh District Council.
Some Extracts From The Records Of Old Lisburn And The Manor Of Killultagh. Edited by James Carson.
'HISTORY OF KILLULTAGH' by the Rev. W. H. Dundas, B.D.
Published in the "Lisburn Standard," January 28, 1916.
Killultagh is in Irish Coill Ultagh, the forest or wood of Ulster; Ulster being here used in its narrower sense as corresponding to the counties of Antrim and dying. There is ample evidence that it deserved its name. Sir G. Carew describes it as "a safe boggy and woody country upon Lough Eaugh" (Neagh); and Sir Henry Bagenall speaks of it as "a very fast countrey full of wood and bogg" (1586).
The territory of Killultagh, may be defined as the district lying between the River Lagan and Lough Neagh; it contained the parishes of Magheragall, Ballinderry, Aghagallon, Magheramesk, and the portion of Blaris north of the Lagan (Reeves). Sir Foulke Conway received a grant of this territory about 1608 A.D.; And the lands of Derrievolgie, with other portions, were afterwards added to the Conway property, so that it included most of the adjoining parishes of Derriaghy, Lambeg, Glenavy, Camlin, and Tullyrusk. This property was called the Manor of Killultagh, afterwards known as the Hertford estate. It corresponds roughly to the Barony of Upper Massereene.
Extract from Diocese of Down & Connor Ancient and Modern Volume 2 by Rev. J. O'Laverty P.P.M.R.I.A.
Published by M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin.
One of the townlands within the Manor of Killultagh is Derrykillultagh - "the oak-wood of Killultagh," which is by some supposed to give name to the Manor. The territory more likely received its name - "the wood of the Ultach, or Ulstermen," because it was in it their chiefs were inaugurated, on the hill of Crew ( N 54° 34.053 W 006° 10.337 ). In more recent times the territory did not extend to Crew; for it was supposed only to contain the civil parishes of Ballinderry, Aghalee, Aghagallon, Magheramesk, Magheragall, and the portion of Blaris which is the present county of Antrim; but it once extended probably to limits of the diocese of Down. St. Aengus calls the church of Dundesert in the parish of Killead Disert Ulidh.
I have rated the terrain as a 1.5 & it is unsuitable for wheelchair users (cache is hidden at height). Difficulty is a 1.5
- The cache is a tab-lock box
- Cache has room for swaps
- There is a log book & pen
