Irelandscapes | Kinbane Castle, A History, with Hector McDonnell - (N Irish Historical Documentary with Scenery) @Irelandscapes | Uploaded August 2022 | Updated October 2024, 13 hours ago.
This epic location is explained in detail by historian and painter Hector McDonnell of Glenarm, whose direct ancestors built this castle and a number of others along the Antrim Coast. Their exploits are now legendary and their sustained penetration of this jagged coastline territory became a permanent and culturally unique event.
The castle illustration featured, an artist's impression, is found on one of the excellent new information boards for this public monument not far from Ballycastle Town and Ballintoy Village.
Kinbane Castle is worth the drive to visit in it's own right with it's views to Rathlin and Scotland, as well as it's challenging topography. We have featured here a number of nearby locations that will compliment this experience and give a better understanding of the territory which became such a prize for competing Irish and Scottish clans. If you're coming up from Belfast, drive to Ballycastle, itself an important site of that competition, then take the coast road for Ballintoy - the turn off for Kinbane is within a couple of miles.