page_title: Ballycastle, County Antrim
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Ballycastle, County Antrim / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Roger Casement (1864-1916) - civil servant, explorer, human rights campaigner, Irish nationalist. He was executed on 3 August 1916, following his conviction for high treason. Date: Circa 1910 NLI Ref.: CAS1A
context_page_description: Ballycastle 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. The harbour hosts the ferry to Rathlin Island, which can be seen from the coast. The Ould Lammas Fair is held each year in Ballycastle on the last Monday and Tuesday of August. Ballycastle is the home of the Corrymeela Community.
  Ballycastle had a population of 5,237 at the 2011 census. It was the seat and main settlement of the old Moyle District Council. Ballycastle was named the best place to live in Northern Ireland in a list compiled by The Sunday Times in 2016.
context_section_description: Sorley Boy MacDonnell (c.1505-1590) - Scottish-Irish prince, born at Dunanynie Castle near Ballycastle
  Gillaspick MacDonnell (c.1550-1571) - nephew of Sorley Boy MacDonnell, killed accidentally in 1571 at Ballycastle.
  Daniel Darragh (c.1838 - June 28, 1870) - Glens' Fenian Head Centre and 'fourth Manchester Martyr'. Born Lisnacalliagh, Culfeightrin, died of consumption in Portland Penitentiary and interred in St. Patrick's and St. Brigid's Cemetery on July 17, 1870.
  The 1st Viscount Longford and 17th Baron Slane (1669-1726) - politician. Lord Longford, known for much of his life as Lord Slane, is buried in the MacDonnell family vault in  Bonamargy Friary, Ballycastle, the burial place of the Earls of Antrim.
  Hugh Boyd (1746-1794) - writer
  John Surman Carden (1771-1858) - officer of the British Royal Navy, died in Ballycastle
  Hugh M‘Neile (1795-1879) - controversial anti-Roman Catholic preacher
  John Samuel Bewley Monsell (1811-1875) - clergyman and hymnwriter
  Thomas Witherow (1824–1890) - Presbyterian minister and historian.
  Sir Roger Casement (1864-1916) - writer and Irish Republican revolutionary who was born and raised in Dublin to a father from Ballycastle.
  Dame Louise McIlroy (1874-1968) - medical doctor, born near Ballymena, father was a general practitioner in Ballycastle
  Robert Quigg 1885-1955) - soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Helen Megaw (1907-2002) - crystallographer
  Donal Lamont (1911 - 2003) - Bishop of Mutare, Zimbabwe, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978
  Michael Dallat (1925 – 2000) - Titular Bishop of Thala, Tunisia and Auxiliary Bishop of Diocese of Down and Connor
  Keith Cardinal O'Brien (1938-2018) - he served as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, 1985-2013. Cardinal O'Brien was effectively the head of the Catholic Church in Scotland from the death of Thomas Cardinal Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, in June 2001 until his own resignation as Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh in February 2013. He was created a Cardinal in October 2003.
  David McWilliams (1945-2002) - folksinger and musician
  Conleth Hill (b. 1964) - actor
caption: Sir Roger Casement
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