Glens Of Antrim Historical Society
Formed in 1965 & recognised as one of the foremost Historical Societies in Ireland
(This article originally appeared in The Glynns Volume 19 and is reproduced here in full.) This summer, while browsing in the National Library, Dublin, I chanced upon a reference to Cushendun. This led me to an article in a publication entitled THE IRISH BUILDER. I read it with interest and jotted down the contents. Sometime … Read more
Patrick Joseph Murray was born near Cushendun on 8th March 1872 and died in Glasgow, 84 years’ later. During the last war his youngest son asked for an account of his early life, and this followed in a series of letters. The letters have an interest well beyond family history, for they recall an … Read more
In her lecture “From Island to Island to Island”, Mary O’Driscoll, manager of Rathlin Ferries and Cape Clear Holidays will discuss the nature of her work during the summer months on both Rathlin Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathlin_Island and Cape Clear Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Clear_Island Mary will also discuss the fascinating islands around the world she has visited. The … Read more
Danny McGill:- Coal-mining along the Ballycastle foreshore has been going on for hundreds if not thousands of years. McCahan1 in his “Local Histories” writes of the probability of Phoenician traders taking coal from exposed seams here as far back as 300 B.C., with the Spaniards mining this coal much later to use in smelting … Read more
Note from the Editor. In recent years a couple of articles about the Gibbons family of Carnlough have appeared in “The Glynns” in Volumes Nos. 10 and 12. This one is the story of an adventure at sea which befell a branch of the family that emigrated from Carnlough to New Zealand in 1889. The … Read more
While researching the White Documents in the Public Records Office (D2861)* I came across the following account of John White’s experiences as a Lieutenant in the 36th Herefordshire Regiment during the time of the Peninsular War. The extract contains four handwritten foolscap sheets. There is no trace of any other journal among these White … Read more
Mr. Denis McKay, of Ballycleagh, gives the following account of how the ferry from Dunavertie used to come into Cushendun. He recalls old John McNeill, of Sleans, telling him, as a lad on his way home from school, that the schooner used to enter the river at high tide, and turn in the basin below … Read more
The man to ask, if you were a bona fide traveller between Scotland and Ireland in 1709 was John McIlrevie described as a "sailor" of Machrimore on the Scottish side. So promising did he find trading to the Glens of Antrim that he paid the Dowager Duchess of Argyll "Forty of Sterling money for the … Read more