Waringsford

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Waringsford is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland, 6km south east of Dromore. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 129 people. It lies within the Banbridge District Council area.

The weaving village of Waringstown took its name from the Waring family who came to the place in 1659 and also gave their name to Waringsford village further east.

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In the Irish Rebellion of 1798 it is said that Betsy Gray, mounted on a white horse, dressed in green and brandishing her sword, led the Hearts of Down in a ferocious and, for a time, victorious charge on the King’s forces at Ballynahinch. After battle she fled and was killed. Some writers put her birthplace as near Newtownards, but there is another tradition, in the area around Dromara, that she was born in Tullyniskey, in a house which still stands on the outskirts of Waringsford village.