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Ballycastle (from Irish Baile an Chaistil, meaning 'town of the castle' ⓘ) [1] [5] is a small seaside town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is on the north-easternmost coastal tip of Ireland, in the Antrim Coast and Glens Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty .
At the Ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle long ago, I met a pretty colleen who set me heart a-glow, She was smiling at her daddy buying lambs from Paddy Roe, At the Ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle-O. Sure I seen her home that night, When the moon was shining bright, From the ould Lammas Fair in Ballycastle-O. Chorus
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From the mid-13th century onward, the Lordship of The Glens belonged to the Bissett family, Anglo-Norman in origin but Gaelicized over generations. With the marriage of John Mor Macdonald, second son of John of Islay, Lord of the Isles, to Margery Bisset in the late 14th century, the Glens came into the ownership of the MacDonnells of Antrim.
Ballycastle, site of the 400-year-old Ould Lammas Fair. Bushmills, site of the Old Bushmills Distillery which was founded in 1608. Dunluce Castle, dating from the 13th century and battered by the Atlantic Ocean. Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, a rope bridge to the tiny Carrick Island. Portrush, and the nearby Giant's Causeway. Derry and its Walled ...
The remains of the castle is located on the cliffs overlooking Ballycastle Bay, behind a caravan park, on an almost triangular headland enclosed by a deep rock-cut ditch. There are remains of the gatehouse along with sections of surviving walls, roughly 2 metres high and 1 metre thick in places, with traces of two other structures within the ...