In undertaking this study I have done my best to ensure that any information written is accurate. However, as much of it is from oral evidence there may be errors due to human memory. As far as possible I have cross-queried any of this type of evidence and what is written is as near accurate as possible.

With any study of this kind which is dependent to a large extent on oral evidence and evidence from local sources it is open to the usual forms of bias, in that people tend to remember what was good or what was horrendous about the past. Some of the memories are second-hand meaning that the event was actually told to them by someone else. On occasions I have come across stories which have not stood up when queried with other sources.

Despite these possible problems the study is, I hope, worth reading and informatiove both to the people of the parish and to outsiders who might simply be interested in how Northern Irish parishes developed over time. I have certainly enjoyed carrying out this study and have come to know the people and the parish much better through it.

Dolina Patterson April 1990