| Glen |
Clachan Name |
Townland |
Present-day Status |
| Rathlin |
Ballygill Middle |
Ballygill Middle |
This clachan is more or less deserted today, with the buildings in various states of ruin. |
| Rathlin |
Knockans North |
Knockans |
This clachan is deserted today with the buildings in various states of ruin. |
| Glentaisie |
Ballydurnian |
Ballydurnian |
Appears to be uninhabited. Buildings used for agricultural purposes. |
| Glentaisie |
Broom-beg |
Broom-beg |
Old buildings appear to be used for agricultural purposes. In the vicinity are refurbished and new houses. |
| Glentaisie |
Broom-more |
Broom-more |
This clachan is deserted with buildings in decay to a lesser or greater degree. There is evidence of use of some buildings for agricultural purposes. |
| Glenshesk |
Carey Mill |
Carey Mill |
Carey Mill appears to be a thriving, populated clachan. Many buildings/houses have been refurbished & modernised. Several bungalows and houses have been built in the vicinty of the original clachan. |
| Glenshesk |
Drumnakeel |
Drumnakeel |
One house occupied – three houses used as farm buildings |
| Glenshesk |
Crockincarragh |
Cross |
None occupied – no roofs However carefully looked after by family, McBride, closely connected to previous occupants – beautiful stonework still evident – a particular feature. |
| Glenshesk |
Coolanlough |
Cross |
Four houses – one derelict, three used as holiday homes, two in continuing family ownership. |
| Glenshesk |
Craigfad |
Craigfad |
Two houses refurbished and occupied – three houses derelict – two houses converted to sheds – one new house |
| Glenshesk |
Slieve Pin |
Ballyvennaght |
Six houses – one refurbished and lived in – five derelict |
| Glenshesk |
Coolnagoppage |
Coolnagoppage |
Three houses refurbished and lived in. Six houses built on old sites – two of these are holiday homes. A total of nine houses. |
| Glenshesk |
Escort |
West Torr |
One new house built – used as holiday home. Three derelict old houses. |
| Glenshesk |
East Torr |
East Torr |
One house refurbished and occupied. Two old houses recently sold as sites. Three old houses used for farming purposes. |
| Glendun |
Aughnasillagh |
Aughnasillagh |
There are only two occupied houses in the townland of Aughnasillagh. In 1860 there were five occupied holdings and one occupied house. All the land in this townland is now owned and farmed by the Murphy family. |
| Glendun |
Ligadaughtan |
Ligadaughtan |
There is only one occupied house in the townland. There were four occupied holdings in 1860. Today there are three holdings in the townland farmed by families that live in another townland. |
| Glendun |
Ballyteerim |
Ballyteerim |
This cluster contains working farms occupied by descendants of people who lived in the townland. Houses have been refurbished and new ones built. Amongst all of these there are still ruins of former buildings. There are four occupied houses in the townland. The residents all live in new or refurbished houses. All the land is owned by the Mc Neill family. There are a number of ruined buildings still to be seen. The clachan obviously had a much larger population than it has today. |
| Glendun |
White House |
White House |
This is an area that is growing. The three holdings are now farmed by one family, who occupy two of the houses. There is a small field attached to the mill which is farmed by the garage owner. Eight new houses have been built in recent years, mainly as holiday homes. |
| Glendun |
Ardicoan |
Ardicoan |
There were six holdings in this townland. The four largest have been held for some time by one family. A relatively small holding is held by a widow from another townland. A field containing about two acres was transferred off one of the holdings and a new house built on it. Five further houses have been built in this townland. |
| Glendun |
Drumfresky |
Drumfresky |
A good example of clachan type development. This cluster had five inhabited dwelllings in 1860. Today only one house is permanently inhabited, and one house let as holiday accommodation.The farmers farming the land attached to the clachan all live elsewhere, though they are mainly descendants of the 1860 inhabitants. |
| Glendun |
Callisnagh |
Callisnagh |
This cluster has only two inhabited house today. Neither of them farm the land attached to the clachan. |
| Glendun |
Dunouragan |
Dunouragan |
This is a thriving community of houses along the Clady Road with new buildings added outside the perimeter of the site. It has some seven dwellings within the recognised clachan, two of which are new modern bungalows, the remaining houses retain their original features though modernised internally.Only one person farms some of the land within the clachan. |
| Glendun |
Gortaghragan |
Gortaghragan |
This cluster remains a very good example of the typical clachan and all the buildings retain the features of the vernacular style architecture. Only two of the existing houses are now occupied, the remainder are in various stages of dereliction with some buildings used as offices. One party farms most of the adjacent land. |
| Glendun |
Straid |
Straid |
Much modernised. Only one fulltime farmer. Some evidence of older buildings remains. |
| Glencorp |
Tromra |
Tromra |
A modern clachan. Previously a very populated townland but housing was not really clustered. |
| Glencorp |
Drumnasmear |
Drumnasmear |
This site is completely deserted, the buildings are in an advanced state of ruin. |
| Glencorp |
Carnasheeran & Drumnacur |
Carnasheeran & Drumnacur |
This site is completely deserted, the buildings are in an advanced state of ruin. |
| Glenann |
Knockban |
Tirkilly |
This site is completely deserted, the buildings are in an advanced state of ruin and not even used as farm buildings. |
| Glenann |
Milltown |
Lubitavish & Tavnaghoney |
This cluster owes its existence as much to a corn mill (now gone) as it does to rundale.The mill was used until about fifty years ago.Today only one house on the site is occupied. |
| Glenballyeamon |
Carnahagh |
Carnahagh |
Three houses – two occupied and one in ruins. Land attached to all three. Three houses occupied by descendants of the clachan on the main road but outside boundary of the clachan. |
| Glenballyeamon |
Mullinaskeagh |
Mullinaskeagh |
This is a thriving community of refurbished houses many of which are on the wallsteads of the the older dwellings. Six houses occupied – one very new on old site. Land attached to two of them. Two houses just outside clachan (on road). Land attached to one of them. Three houses under construction outside of clachan. |
| Glenariffe |
Ballyhuriman |
Kilmore |
This site now contains one modern farm house and a holiday let where there had been three or possibly four houses on it, or close to it, in 1860. |
| Glenariffe |
Ballinameela |
Kilmore |
This site is now a mixture of derelict houses in various states of repair intermingled with refurbished houses and some completely new houses adjacent to the original clachan site. |
| Glenariffe |
Feddanranny |
Glasmullen |
There are now only two modern houses on this site where there had been five in 1860. |
| Glenariffe |
Galboly |
Galboly Upper |
This clachan is now deserted and the buildings in various states of ruin. |
| Glencloy |
Gortnagory |
Gortnagory |
Two houses in this clachan are still inhabited today. One of the families has a direct connection back to the families of the nineteenth century. |
| Glencloy |
Aghalum |
Aghalum |
There are still two families inhabiting this clachan today. There are also former dwellings which have been converted to agricultural use. |
| Glencloy |
Unshinagh |
Unshinagh |
This clachan is uninhabited today. Remains of former dwellings can be seen in various states of repair and decay. There is also evidence of pens for animals. |
| Glencloy |
Straidkilly |
Bay |
Clachan still ocupied today. Some of the houses belong to farmers and some are holiday lets. There are also ruins scattered throughout the site. |
| Glenarm |
Bellair |
Bellair |
The clachan is now part of a working farm inhabited by one of the original families who lived there in the mid nineteenth century. Most of the original buildings or dwellings within the clachan have been converted for agricultural use but there is still evidence of older dwellings. |
| Glenarm |
Long Fall |
Dickeystown |
The remains of the clachan dwellings are part of a working farm called Blackbush now owned by descendants of residents of the townland in the mid nineteenth century who live nearby. |
| Glenarm |
Feystown |
Clady |
This clachan had probably ceased to exist even by the 1860s. All that is now visible are the remains of wallsteads, many of which are overgrown with vegetation. |
| Glenarm |
Cruck |
Mullaghsandall |
One house within the cluster still occupied occasionally as a holiday home. Some of the other buildings have been refurbished and used as farm outbuildings. New bungalow nearby. The farmhouse in Griffith’s No. 3B (across the fields) is still occupied today |
| Glenarm |
Ligg |
Mullaghsandall |
Now completely deserted. Buildings in various states of ruin. An area within the clachan is used as livestock pens. |
| Glenarm |
Cullyvully |
Mullaghsandall |
Now completely deserted. Houses in various states of ruin. There is a large modern farm building on the site. |