Glens Of Antrim Historical Society
Formed in 1965 & recognised as one of the foremost Historical Societies in Ireland
Noreen Delargy & Josephine McCallin:- The Glens of Antrim Historical Society had been aware for some time of the need to provide information for visitors to the Glens area and to meet this need an information centre was set up in May 1988 in a Portacabin Office behind the Branch Library in the Cushendall Car … Read more
Danny McGill:- On 27th July 1988, I made an interesting discovery at the north eastern corner of the garden of the Coal Yard cottage (commonly known as Marconi’s). Here, there is a piece of buttress walling built upon the living rock which has been cut to form a tank and a channel identical to what … Read more
Cahal Dallat:- Artigoran Ard tigh Gorain The hill of Goran’s house Ballaghmore Bealach mor Great mountain-pass Ballyboyland Baile buidhe lann orBaile O’Baoghaileain Townland of the yellow church or Boylan’s townland Ballybrakes Baile breac Speckled townland Ballycormick Baile Cormaic Cormac’s townland Ballygan Baile gceann Townland of the heads *Perhaps a place like Knocknagin (the hill of … Read more
Patrick Close:- Where, last August, would you have found a bishop, a Japanese professor, a bus load of unemployed people from the W.E.A. in Belfast, the Provost of Trinity College, a distinguished American photographer, Sean O’Casey’s daughter-in-law, a couple of Swedish academics, as well as a proliferation of poets, journalists and entertainers? St. MacNissi’s … Read more
The Society wishes to thank the following for their excellent lectures Dr. Roger Stalley Cistercian Monasteries in Ireland 23. 9.88 Mr. E.G. Hannon The Girona Odyssey 21.10.88 Dr. John Feehan Environmental Heritage Resources of the Irish Landscape in Rural Development 18.11.88 Dr. Ambrose Macaulay Religious Practice in Co. Antrim in the Early Nineteenth … Read more
A CHURCH AT CLOUGH Harry Hume Oldest Presbyterian church in Ireland – 1656. Account of ministers from then to the present day. Drawing of wooden book of psalms in Old Latin, found at Springmount Bog nearby. DISCOVERING EACH OTHER Jack McCann Travelling through America; Boston, Baltimore, New York etc. Connecting Irish immigrants to the … Read more