The facts (and speculations!) documented here come from a multitude of sources. These are the principal ones.
- Bennet Family – The Bennet Diaries (held by PRONI)
- Binns, Jonathan – “The Miseries and Beauties of Ireland” (1837) Volume 1 and Volume 2
- Blacker, William – Copy-Out Letter Books, 1832-38 & 1846-48, held and transcribed by PRONI
- BNA – British Newspaper Archive
- Byrne, P – ‘A Picturesque Handbook To Carlingford Bay’ (1846)
- Carew, Sir George – ‘Report of Commission on The Condition of Ireland’ (1611)
- Coote, Sir Charles – ‘Statistical Survey of The County of Armagh’ (1804)
- Crossman, Virginia – ‘Local Government in Nineteenth Century Ireland’. Institute Of Irish Studies, QUB, 1994.
- DuBourdieu, Rev John – ‘Statistical Survey of the County of Down’ (1802)
- Herring, Ivor -‘Ulster Roads On The Eve Of The Railway Age, c. 1800-40’. Irish Historical Studies Vol 2, 1940.
- Fraser, James ‘Handbook For Travellers in Ireland’ 4th Ed. (1854)
- Gurrin, Brian et al – ‘People, Place and Power: The Grand Jury System In Ireland’ (2022)
- Harris, Walter – ‘The Antient and Present State of the County of Down’ (1744)
- Harshaw, James – The Harshaw Diaries (held by PRONI)
- Herring, Ivor J – ‘Ulster Roads On The Eve of the Railway Age, 1800-1840’ Irish Historical Studies Journal (1940)
- Hill, George – ‘An Historical Account of The Plantation of Ulster at The Commencement of The Seventeenth Century’ (1877)
- Hill, George – ‘The Stewarts of Ballintoy’[1] (1865)
- Hunter, R J – ‘The Ulster Plantations in The Counties of Armagh & Cavan, 1608-1641’, PhD Thesis, (1969)
- Knox, Alexander – ‘A History of The County of Down’ (1875)
- Lewis, Samuel – ‘Topological Dictionary of Ireland’ Volume 2, 2nd Edition (1849)
- McCutcheon, W.A. – ‘The Canals of The North of Ireland’ David & Charles (1965)
- McLean, Sir John – ‘An Historical And Genealogical Memoir of The Family of Poyntz’ (1886)
- Mulligan, Fergus – ‘William Dargan, An Honourable Life, 1799-1867’ (2013)
- Nevil, Francis – ‘Map of the Glann Bog Between The Counties of Down and Armagh’ (1703) PRONI
- Paterson, TGF – ‘Armachiana’ 22 volumes of lecture notes, Armagh County Museum (1950s onwards)
- Pynnar, Capt. Nicholas – ‘Survey of Ulster’ (1617-1619) as detailed in George Hill’s commentary.
- Various – ‘Inquiry Into The Condition of The Poorer Classes in Ireland’ (Royal Commission, 1835)
- Various, – ‘Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland – Co Armagh’ (OSMI) (1835-38
- Young, Arthur – ‘A Tour In Ireland, 1777-1779’ (1780)
- Yule, Alexander – ‘The Importance of Spade Husbandry, and Manual Agriculture, as a Certain means of Removing Irish Distress’ (1848)
•“History of Roads in Ireland”. Wikipedia page
•“People, Place and Power – The Grand Jury System in Ireland”. Published by The Virtual Treasury of Ireland, 2021. Free to download.
[1] In this, Hill incorrectly states that Acton came into the Stewart family via his wife’s inheritance. If fact, it was via his father’s wife, Sarah Poyntz. MOVE