Ballymena

noun

a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Antrim. Pop: 59 516 (2003 est). Area: 634 sq km (247 sq miles)

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Historical Examples

They walked to the foot of the "loanie" and then turned along the Ballymena road.
Changing Winds
St. John G. Ervine
My father was from Ballymena and my mother was from Cork, a solution which no chemistry could cure.
St. Cuthbert's
Robert E. Knowles
At Gracehill, near Ballymena, he will find the remains of a settlement.
History of the Moravian Church
J. E. Hutton
The devil fly away with Ballymena, and the Macluskys along with it!
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.
Pierce Egan
And at the railroad station in Ballymena he hazarded a look at Alan Donn.
The Wind Bloweth
Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne

Ballymena

Examples from the Web for ballymena

Historical Examples

They walked to the foot of the "loanie" and then turned along the Ballymena road.

My father was from Ballymena and my mother was from Cork, a solution which no chemistry could cure.

At Gracehill, near Ballymena, he will find the remains of a settlement.

The devil fly away with Ballymena, and the Macluskys along with it!

And at the railroad station in Ballymena he hazarded a look at Alan Donn.