Editing Draperstown (section)

==Name==
Draperstown had its name bestowed upon it in 1818 by the [[Worshipful Company of Drapers]], which had previously named [[Moneymore]] as Draperstown.<ref name="PNoNI">Toner, Gregory; ''Place-Names of Northern Ireland, Volume Five, County Derry I, The Moyola Valley'', 1996. {{ISBN|0-85389-613-5}}</ref>

Prior to this however the settlement was originally known as "Borbury" ({{Irish derived place name|Bóthar Buí|yellow road}}).<ref name="Logainm"/><ref name="PNoNI"/> It was then recorded as being called "The Cross" in 1813 and "Moyheelan" in 1821.<ref name="PNoNI"/>

Despite the name given to it by the Drapers' Company, locals continued to commonly refer to the settlement with a variety of names: 
*The Cross, in reference to the crossroads where the market was held,<ref name="PNoNI"/>
*Moyheelan, after the townland of Moyheeland ({{Irish derived place name|Maigh Chaoláin|plain of the marshy stream}}), which it was founded in,<ref name="PNoNI"/>
*the Cross of Ballynascreen, after the fact that it was the main crossroads in the parish of Ballynascreen,<ref name="PNoNI"/>
*Ballinascreen ({{Irish derived place name|Baile na Scrine|the land/territory of the shrine"}}),<ref name="Logainm"/><ref name="PNoNI"/> after the [[Parish (Catholic Church)|Roman Catholic parish]].
*Draperstown-cross,<ref name="PNoNI"/> after the crossroads that were the main feature of the settlement
*Ballynacross, of which the Irish form ''Baile na Croise'', meaning "townland of the crossroad", is used as the present Irish name for Draperstown.<ref name="Logainm"/>

The term "screen" in the popular Irish song ''[[The Verdant Braes of Screen]]'' apparently refers to Ballinascreen.