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Cushendun is a small
coastal village in County Antrim. The villages sheltered and safe
harbour at the mouth of the River Dun has been a landing place and
ferry point between Scotland and Ireland since man first settled on
the north Irish coast. The Mull of Kintyre in Scotland is only 15
miles away across the North Channel and can be seen easily on clear
days.
Cushendun is situated on a raised beach at the outflow of the
glacial valleys of Glendun and Glencorp.The pretty village was
designed by Clough William Ellis in 1912 at the request of Ronald
John McNeill, Baron Cushendun. The picturesque Cornish appearance
was deliberate, to please the Baron’s Penzance-born wife, Maud.
Ellis designed a village square with seven houses which are today
run as craft shops and tea rooms. After Maud’s death in 1925, Ellis
designed a row of whitewashed, quaint cottages in her memory. Baron
Cushendun also commissioned neo-Georgian Glenmona House with all the
mock pomposity of eighteenth century architecture.
The nearby hamlet of Knocknacarry, which is closely related to
Cushendun, lies approximately 1 mile to the west. |
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