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The
village of Belaghy is situated ten miles from Randelstown on the Maghera
road, there are the remains of a plantation bawn, built by the Vintners
Company.
Ballyscullion
house is located about one and a half miles east of the village, in
the grounds of which are the ruins of a palace built for the Earl
Bishop Fredrick Augustus Hervey 1730-1803 the building was designed
by Michael Shanahan, and destroyed some time before 1813. The portico
of the palace was removed and incorporated into St Georges Church Belfast.
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to Belaghy is Lough Beg, on Church Island peninsula are the font
and remains of a medieval church associated with St Tida; the tower
and spire were added in 1788 by the Earl Bishop.
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