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Place names Andreas & Richard CHRISTIAN

Does anyone know where these places were located in Andreas, and whether they were near each other, and near Ballacorry?
Laggagh vollaugh
Magher moar
Creggan Moar

And whether they were far from Close e Cottire (or Close y Cottier) in Lezayre?

In the 1761 Andreas marriage contract of Richard CHRISTIAN & Elinor TEAR, his parents "John Christian Ballacorry and Avrick [CRAIN] his wife" gave "Half of their two Crofts And their right in Laggagh vollaugh with half of their Houses haggard & Garden in present possession and the other half after the Decease of the sd John Christian and Avrick his wife, And also do give them half of their field called the Magher moar...etc."

The widowed Elinor Tear "Do hereby give.... her Daughter Elinot Tear as Dowry all her right and tittle to a parcell of Intack Land which was purchased by Danl Tear her husband & herself situate in the parrish of KK Christian
free & debtless in present possession with a Cow and bed clothes And all whatever is named on herself..."
lawsonsiom.freevar.com/Marr_cont/1761_00.html

In her will Elinor left all her right & title to this land in Kk Lezayre called Close e Cottire to her daughter Ann, who married John Radcliffe, Belfast.
She also left her right and title to a parcel of land in Andreas called Creggan Moar to her daughters.

This John Christian Ballacorry was not from the main Ballacorry Christian family - we've been unable to find any connection, despite "Ballacorry" being recorded at the bapts of some of their children. John's father Richard Christian (buried Andreas 1723) married Margaret Howland from Bride, and their descendants had the occasional child bapt in Bride.

There was another Richard Christian in Andreas at the same time (son of Daniel C & Margaret Sansbury), who also mentioned Close y Cottier in his 1741 will, just to confuse things further. This Richard's brother James d.1729 married Mally d.1726 from the first mentioned Christian family. She was the sister of John (the father in the 1761 marriage contract) who must have reached a comparatively old age, dying in 1771.

Thanks for any help.

Sue