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Cushendun village, was
designed for Ronald McNeill, the Conservative MP and author
later Lord Cushendun in the style of a Cornish village by
the architect Clough Williams-Ellis. He is buried in the
Church of Ireland graveyard near his nationalist cousin Ada
or Ide McNeill, Roger Casement's friend and admirer who died
in 1959. Cushendun is part of Down and Connor, Ireland's
second largest Catholic diocese.
Since 1954 most of the village
and the parkland around Glenmona to the north has been owned
by the National Trust. Cushendun's picturesque coastal
setting in the heart of the Antrim Coast and Glens Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty, together with its unique
architectural inheritance, resulted in designation as a
Conservation area in 1980. |
