page_title: Ballyblack
hierarchical_section_title: Ballyblack
caption_attribution_description: English: Ballyblack Presbyterian Church Ballyblack Presbyterian Church - constructed in 1872 - off Newtownards' Ballyblack Road between Loughries and Carrowdore.
context_page_description: Ballyblack is an area of rural townland in the Ards Peninsula of County Down, Northern Ireland, approximately 6 miles southeast from Newtownards. The area falls into greenbelt. The presence of drumlins gives the landscape a bumpy texture with hills often compared to the curves of a basket of eggs. The drumlins also make this an area of special scientific interest.
  According to PlacenamesNI.org the name Ballyblack originates from "Baile Bhláca" meaning Black’s or Blake’s townland. "The name of the townland of Ballyblack has its origin in the gaelicization of an earlier Anglo-Norman name, which probably resembled Blacketon. The trouble lies in trying to establish the exact meaning of the English surname Black/Blake. P. H. Reaney shows that Anglo-Norman names in Britain such as Willelmus Blac, Niger did mean ‘the Black’."
context_section_description: Ballyblack is an area of rural townland in the Ards Peninsula of County Down, Northern Ireland, approximately 6 miles southeast from Newtownards.  The area falls into greenbelt. The presence of drumlins gives the landscape a bumpy texture with hills often compared to the curves of a basket of eggs. The drumlins also make this an area of special scientific interest.
  According to PlacenamesNI.org the name Ballyblack originates from "Baile Bhláca" meaning Black’s or Blake’s townland.  "The name of the townland of Ballyblack has its origin in the gaelicization of an earlier Anglo-Norman name, which probably resembled Blacke(s)ton. The trouble lies in trying to establish the exact meaning of the English surname Black(e)/Blake. P. H. Reaney shows that Anglo-Norman names in Britain such as Willelmus Blac, Niger (1086 AD) did mean ‘the Black’."
caption: Ballyblack Presbyterian Church
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