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Pigot's directory, 1824
Maghera

Editors notes:

Some of this page has not photocopied well and is unreadable. If anyone has a better copy and can correct some of the entries, please cpntact me.

Is in the county of Derry, about 100 miles north by west of Dublin, 7 south west of Kilrea, 6 north north west of Magherafelt, 5 north west of Castle-Dawson, and 8 north by west of Moneymore. In 1820 a handsome stone church was erected, with a square steeple, and in the year following a school was built for the education of 100 boys and 100 girls, who are taught on the Lancasterian system ; the master and mistress are allowed ten pounds per annum each, and a small sum is paid quarterly by the parents of the children. There are still remaining the steeple and part of the walls of the old church, which, before the reformation, was a Cathaolic cathedral, and near half a mile from it are the ruins of a friary, now known by the name of Mullagh church. Maghera has a meeting house for Presbyterians, and a mile and a half from the town, on the Dungiven road, is the Catholic chapel. Here are a small barrack for twenty-four foot soldiers and an officer, and a market house, which is in a very decayed state. Petty sessions, for the trial of criminal offences, are held every month. Besides the regular market on Tuesday, there is a corn market every Friday. The fairs are on January the 12th, the Tuesday after the 12th of March, June the 12th, the Tuesday after the 12th of August, October the 12th, and November the 12th.

POST OFFICE.-Post Mistress, Mrs. Jane Sinclair. The Dublin mail is despatched to Magherafelt at twenty minutes past eight in the morning, and arrives at nine at night. All letters from Maghera go by this mail.

Gentry and Clergy.

Merchants, Tradesmen, &c.

Attorneys.

Surgeons.

Brewers.

Innkeeper & Publicans.

Shopkeepers, Traders, &c.

No Coaches pass through this town, but a Day Coach runs through Magherafelt, six miles distant, to Belfast, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at seven in the morning, and returns on alternate days, at eight in the evening.

Goods are conveyed by hired Cars.

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