As a contemplative community The Little Sisters of Jesus mission is to be women of prayer.  Rather than live this out in a monastery they seek, by preference, to live amongst those groups that are inaccessible to other forms of Church ministry, are minorities, or whose days to day life is marked by division, racism, poverty or violence.

Ballyhornan Family Centre provides a whole range of facilities and activities for the community.  Situated in Bishopscourt this custom built £250k building was created with the extraordinary coming together of funding by Rural Development Group, International Fund for Ireland, Down District Council, Local Economic Development Strategy DDC, Fishing villages initiative 2005 and the Ballyhornan & District Community Association.

A central  aim of  ADA - the Ardglass Development Association - is to ensure that these skills are properly harnessed and utilised locally. Investment in modern engineering and manufacturing has tended to be located in other parts of Northern Ireland, and ADA intends to rectify this where possible, in addition to promoting community and environmental facilities in a charming Village where the craic is great, the people are pleasant and well educated, the golf, water sports and sailing are fun, and the salmon, shellfish and herring good to eat. 
 

Ireland and its counties are sub-divided in a unique way ,counties into baronies, baronies into parishes, and parishes into town lands. The Civil parish's of Ardglass and Dunsford are in the barony of Lower Lecale on the east coast of County Down. The Ecclesiastical parish of Dunsford and Ardglass includes both civil parishes.