Ballylough Castle

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Ballylough Castle is the ruins of a castle in County Antrim , Northern Ireland .

location

The ruin is about 2.5 kilometers south of Bushmills . Ballylough Castle used to belong to the Civil parish Billy . The area was later divided into the townlands of Ballylough, Ballyloughmore and Ballyloughbeg. Not far from the ruins is the Giant's Causeway .

history

The castle is mentioned in the annals of the four masters in a document from 1544 as Baile-an-locha . It served as the headquarters of Clan McQuillan and the MacDonnell family until it was conquered by the O'Donells of Tyrconell . Two nautical chests from a ship belonging to the Spanish Armada were kept in the castle until they were moved to Glenarm Castle in 1740 . Today only parts of the north and west walls are preserved.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b M. Webb: The Clan of the MacQuillins of Antrim . In: Ulster Journal of Archeology . Vol. 8. Archer & Sons, Belfast 1860, pp. 254 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ William Reeves: Ecclesiastical antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, consisting of a taxation of those dioceses, compiled in the year MCCCVI .; with notes and illustrations . Hodges and Smith, Dublin 1847, LCCN  40-020210 , OCLC 3286482 , p. 287 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ A b c George Hill: An historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim: including notices of some other septs, Irish and Scottish . Archer, Belfast 1873, LCCN  22-000642 , OCLC 4059733 , p. 425 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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