Ballymoney Free Press

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The Ballymoney Free Press was a newspaper published from 1863 until November 1, 1934, when it was incorporated with the Coleraine Chronicle.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nli.ie/newsplan/PaperDetail.asp?IndexNo=%2077 |title=BALLYMONEY FREE PRESS AND NORTHERN COUNTIES ADVERTISER |access-date=2012-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205235454/http://www.nli.ie/newsplan/PaperDetail.asp?IndexNo=%2077 |archive-date=2013-12-05 |url-status=dead }} In its early years it was edited by Samuel C. McElroy, an auctioneer who was also a key member of the Route Tenants' Defence Association.Samuel Clark, James S. Donnelly, Jr, (editors), [https://books.google.com/books?id=sKLQnYmmPLMC Irish Peasants: Violence and Political Unrest, 1780-1914], {{ISBN|0299093743}}, (2003), page 206