Portballintrae () is a small seaside village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is four miles east of Portrush and two miles west of the Giant's Causeway. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 734 people, a decline of 10% compared to 1991. It lies within the

Causeway Coast and Glens District Council Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015. It covers most of the northern coast of Northern Ireland and replaced Ballymoney Borough Council, Coleraine Borough Council ...

area.

History

Donald Trump

In 2007 Portballintrae was considered as a location for a proposed £1 billion golf course complex by American tycoon and former American president Donald Trump.

Spanish Armada

Between 1967 and April 1968 a team of Belgian divers (including Robert Sténuit, the world's first

aquanaut An aquanaut is any person who remains underwater, breathing at the ambient pressure for long enough for the concentration of the inert components of the breathing gas dissolved in the body tissues to reach equilibrium, in a state known as satura ...

), located the remains of the wreck of the '' Girona'' off the coast of Portballintrae and brought up the greatest find of

Spanish Armada The Spanish Armada (a.k.a. the Enterprise of England, es, Grande y Felicísima Armada, links=no, lit=Great and Most Fortunate Navy) was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by the Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aris ...

treasure salvaged up until that time. The recovered artefacts are now on display in the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

Places of interest

*The ruins of Dunluce Castle sit on the edge of a cliff between Portballintrae and Portrush. The castle was the main stronghold of the MacDonnell chiefs of Antrim. *Much of Portballintrae and its surrounding area is owned by the Macnaghten family of

Dundarave House Dundarave is a country house in the village of Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was the ancestral seat of the Macnaghten family, which is the chiefly family of Clan Macnaghten. Dundarave was designed by Sir Charles Lanyon, the ...

and ''Runkerry House''. Runkerry, once the home of

Lord Macnaghten Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten, (3 February 1830 – 17 February 1913) was an Anglo-Irish Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, law lord, barrister, rowing (sport), rower, and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative-Irish Unionist Alliance, Unionist ...

, has since been converted into a series of apartments. *The Giant's Causeway Tramway runs through the

sand dune A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, fl ...

s above the largest beach in Portballintrae, commonly known as Runkerry Strand, and Bushfoot Golf Club. This railway, popular with tourists, runs between The Giants Causeway and Bushmills.

2001 Census

Portballintrae is classified as a small village or hamlet by th
NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)
(i.e. with population between 500 and 1,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 734 people living in Portballintrae. Of these: *12.0% were aged under 16 years and 33.4% were aged 60 and over *48.9% of the population were male and 51.1% were female *1.0% were from a Catholic background and 96.5% were from a Protestant background. *2.1% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed

References

Coleraine Borough Council
*Draft Northern Area Plan 2016

External links

Portballintrae.netNI Neighbourhood Information Service
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