Ordnance Survey Memoir For The Parish Of Culfeightrin*

The Society wishes to thank the Officers of the Royal Irish Academy for kindly permitting the publication of this Memoir, and the Staff of the Northern Royal Ireland Public Record Office for its assistance in transcribing the text. The Society has already published the Ordnance Survey Memoirs for a number of parishes within the Glens, … Read more

CARNLOUGH HARBOUR DEVELOPMENT SCHEME, 1854—1864 by Jimmy Irvine

(This article first appeared in Volume 5 of The Glynns in 1977, it is presented here with added Hyperlinks and photographs)   The Marchioness of Londonderry inherited her Carnlough Estate on the death of her mother, the Countess of Antrim, in 1834.   Anne-Catherine MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim (circa. 1798) The  Marchioness did not begin … Read more

GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM NAPPAN By Brian S. Turner KILLYCRAPPIN GRAVEYARD County Antrim O.S. Sheet 20. Grid Ref. 292225.

  Killycrappin is one of those private corners of Ireland for which we have no evidence that it has ever been anything else.  It is on that part of the steep coast of Antrim which runs from just north of Carnlough to Garron Point and is know as the ‘Largy’.  (Leargaidh – the side or … Read more

NOTES ON BALLYCASTLE IN THE OLDEN DAYS. Canon Isaac Purcell Barnes, B.A., & Hugh Alexander Boyd

These notes have been compiled from MS. papers written about the year 1906 by the late Canon Isaac Purcell Barnes, B.A., Incumbent of Ballycastle Church 1874 – 1921. They have been edited and additional material has been included by Hugh Alexander Boyd.   (Sketch Map of Ballycastle 1760) At the time that Ballycastle Church was … Read more

INDEX of THE GLYNNS Vol. 5

BALLYCASTLE IN THE OLDEN DAYS   Hugh A Boyd. Notes from Canon Barnes’ papers from 1906, with additional material; Ballycastle 1756 onwards…   GRAVESTONE INSCRIPTIONS FROM NAPPAN   Brian S Turner. Exploring the graveyard at Nappan, Cappan, Killycrappin & descriptions of stones with names and dates ; the Turnly vault, the tradition of drowned sailors … Read more