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()th December^ 1892. 



Professor M. F. FitzGerald, B.A., C.E., in the Chair. 



Mr. R. M. Young, C.E., M.R.I.A., read a Paper on 



BRIEF ANTIQUARIAN NOTES AT BUSHFOOT AND 

 BALLYMAGARRY. 



In the course of his paper Mr. Young said — The romantic 

 scenery of the northern coast of the County Antrim, particu- 

 larly at Dunluce and the Giant's Causeway, is familiar to us all, 

 as are also the fine photographs of its salient features, amongst 

 the best of which are those recently done by Mr. R. Welch, for 

 exhibition at Chicago by the Belfast and Northern Counties 

 Railway Company. In spite of this familiarity, there are several 

 interesting places which escape the tourist's notice, and are prac- 

 tically as unknown to the public as if situated in Uganda. I 

 have chosen as the theme of my short paper two of these 

 localities, situated near Bushmills, from which they are each 

 about two miles distant. One is the prehistoric settlement on 

 the sandhills of Bushfoot, the other the former mansion of the 

 Earls of Antrim at Ballymagarry, near Dunluce Castle. 



Bushfoot, as its name implies, is the district on both sides of 

 the mouth Oi the River Bush, which is here a wide, shallow 

 stream, celebrated for its salmon and the large turbines which 

 utilise its water for the electric railway, not to mention the 

 distillery for the production of the barley water associated 

 with the town of Bushmills. The sand dunes, where the 

 settlements of the primitive folk were located, extend from 

 the mouth of the river to Runkerry Point, a distance of 

 nearly two miles. I was induced to explore the sand hills after 

 reading the valuable papers by Messrs. Gray, Knowles, Buick, 

 and others, contained in the Journal of the Royal Society of 



