Ballycastle
Ballycastle is a small fishing port and beach resort, historically in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Those counties have been abolished so the town is now in Causeway Coast and Glens District, and in 2011 had a population of 5237.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Adam Bishop, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 5,090 residents
- Description: town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Baile an Chaistil”, “Ballycastle, County Antrim”, “Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland”, “Ballykessel”, “Bellycaissle”, and “Bellykessel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bonamargy Friary and Dunaneeny Castle.
Bonamargy Friary
Archaeological site
Photo: JohnArmagh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bonamargy Friary is situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, off the Cushendall Road on the approach to Ballycastle. The name Bonamargy means ‘foot of the Margy River’, the river formed by the joining of the Cary River and Shesk Rivers.
Dunaneeny Castle
Castle
Dunaneeny Castle is a ruined castle on the outskirts of Ballycastle in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The castle was home to the chiefs of Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg and later the MacDonnells of Antrim.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballyvoy.
Ballyvoy
Village
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballyvoy is a small village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is on the main A2 coast road 5 km east of Ballycastle and 17 km north west of Cushendall. Ballyvoy is situated 2½ miles east of Ballycastle.
Ballycastle
- Category: locality
- Location: Causeway Coast and Glens, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.2007° or 55° 12′ 3″ northLongitude
-6.2503° or 6° 15′ 1″ westPopulation
5,090Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB BYCOpen location code
9C7M6P2X+7VOpenStreetMap ID
node 267763167OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Yue Chinese—“Ballycastle” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ballycastle”
- Basque: “Ballycastle (Antrim)”
- Basque: “Ballycastle”
- Bulgarian: “Баликасъл”
- Catalan: “Ballycastle (Antrim)”
- Catalan: “Ballycastle”
- Cebuano: “Ballycastle (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Ballycastle”
- Chinese: “巴利卡斯爾”
- Chinese: “巴利城堡鎮”
- Chinese: “巴利城堡镇”
- Chinese: “巴利堡”
- Chinese: “巴里卡索”
- Czech: “Ballycastle”
- Dutch: “Ballycastle”
- French: “Ballycastle (comte d’Antrim)”
- French: “Ballycastle (comté d’antrim)”
- French: “Ballycastle (Comté D’Antrim)”
- French: “Ballycastle”
- Galician: “Baile an Chaistil”
- Galician: “Ballycastle”
- German: “Baile an Chaisleáin”
- German: “Ballycastle”
- Hebrew: “באליקאסל”
- Irish: “Baile an Chaistil”
- Italian: “Ballycastle”
- Japanese: “バリーキャッスル”
- Japanese: “バリキャッスル”
- Korean: “밸리캐슬”
- Malay: “Ballycastle, Daerah Antrim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ballycastle”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ballycastle”
- Norwegian: “Ballycastle”
- Persian: “بالیکاسل، شهرستان انتریم”
- Persian: “بالیکاسل، کانتی انتریم”
- Polish: “Ballycastle”
- Portuguese: “Ballycastle”
- Russian: “Балликасл (Антрим)”
- Russian: “Балликасл”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile an Chaistil”
- Silesian: “Ballycastle”
- Slovenian: “Ballycastle”
- Spanish: “Ballycastle”
- Swedish: “Ballycastle”
- Venetian: “Ballycastle”
- Welsh: “Baile an Chaistil”
- Welsh: “Ballycastle”
- Yue Chinese: “巴利堡”
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