Ballyme'na, a small town of County Antrim, Ireland, on the Braid, 33 miles NNW. of Belfast by rail. It lies in a densely peopled and well-cultivated district, the inhabitants uniting the pursuit of agriculture with the manufacture of linen. Ballymena is a great linen and flax market, and its vicinity is covered with bleach-fields. Pop. (1891) 8655.
Ballyme'na,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 691
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