Ballyloughan, which encompasses the bottom of the Coach Road, Barnhill, Nurseyville and the beginning of the Comber end of the Comber Greenway. Ballloughan is 0.53 square miles or just under 340 acres in size, adjacent to Ballyaltikilligan. In Irish, Baile an Locháin, with Locháin coming from the Irish word Lochán for pond or small lake ergo Place of the Pond. However, it would appear the 'pond' or 'lake' in question has not survived with no small body of water present today or on any of the Ordnance Survey maps from 1834.
Ballyloughan is home to two of the 'big houses' of the Comber area, Barnhill (once home of local diarist Guy Stone) and Nurseryville, once a large plant/tree nursery- which I was once told was one of the largest in Ulster. Recently, on a visit to Belfast Central Library, the committee of the Comber Historical Society were shown a 19th century publication entitled 'Catalogue of fruit, forest, and ornamental trees, evergreen and flowering shrubs, American and other bog plants, bulbous and herbaceous flower roots, propagated and sold by John Hervey, Nurseryville near Comber'.
There are few archaeological sites within Ballyloughan but there have been three discoveries in the immediate vicinity with a hoard of 30 silver Elizabethan coins found at Barnhill by Guy Stone in 1847 and a number of burial cists or urns found in 1885. The findspot of these urns is given on the 3rd & 4th editions of the OS Map, described as "on the floor of the Enler Valley, west of the river and the old railway line on flat ground in a cabbage field near the entrance of the main Belfast/Comber Road". Norman Nevin in his Story of Comber mentions another find, this time in the river, with "Leslie McWilliams was fishing near Ballyloughan when be saw something shining on the bed of the river..." finding "what proved to be a spear head", which dated to the Bronze age and had subsequently been given to the museum.
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