BALLYMOYER, a parish in the barony of Upper Fews, county of Armagh, and province of Ulster, 3 miles (N.E.) from Newtown-Hamilton; containing 2729 inhabitants.  This place, formerly called Tehellen, was the site of a religious establishment founded by St. Patrick, who appointed St. Killian to preside over it, and of which the church was destroyed by fire in 670; the ancient cemetery may still be traced in the demesne of Ballymoyer Lodge.  The parish is situated on the road from Newtown-Hamilton to Newry, and comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 738¼ statute acres, of which about 40 acres are underwood, about 2605 are bog and waste land, and the remainder arable and pasture.  The lands were heathy and barren previously to 1778, when Sir Walter Synnot created a house and became a resident landlord; scarcely a tree or shrub was to be seen, and the agricultural implements were of the rudest kind.  He constructed good reads in the vicinity, planted forest trees to
Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, 1837

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