48-50 Castle Street

November 2024

Project Attributes

Project:

Ballycastle Museum

Owner:

Ballycastle Museum

Date:

10th November 2025

Address: 48-50 Castle Street

Listing: Not listed

Construction date: 1760-1789 (Historic Buildings Record HB05/13/015)

Year	Owner/lessee	Business name	Building use	Notes
				This property was held as a single unit or subdivided into two at multiple times. Where subdivided, these are noted as a) and b) below. a) is likely the main dwelling, and b) the shop.
1834	Denis McAuley		Bake house	HB05/13/015. Denis McAuley is listed as one of three bakers on Castle Street (then called Main Street) in Pigot’s 1824 Directory.
1859	Denis Black			HB05/13/015. The room over the archway (now incorporated int no.46) was part of this building by 1859. Denis Black may be the man of the same name listed as a tailor in Slater’s Directories of 1846 and 1856. He was seemingly responsible for building the properties on Castle Place through the archway and to the rear of this building.
1861	Denis Black		Tailor and haberdasher	Parish of Ramoan 1861 Valuation of Tenements.
a) 1864-1868	Alex McAlister			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
b) 1864-1868	Denis Black			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
1869-1875	Denis Black			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
1876-1878	Robert Black			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) 1879-1881	Catherine Mc?			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) 1882-1883	John Cramsie			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) 1884-1886	vacant			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
b) 1879-1886	Hester Black			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers. Room over archway still part of this building.
1887-1897	Hester Black		Dwelling and shop	SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) 1898-1907	Thomas Gilmore			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
b) 1898-1907	Wm. James Calwell			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
1901	Ann Curry		Grocery	Census – building no.69 Anne Curry, 75, head of family, Presbyterian, grocer, widow William Curry, 35, son, Presbyterian, National teacher, not married
1908-1911	William J. Hanna			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
1911	William John Hanna		Grocery	Census – building no.74 William John Hanna, 62, head of family, Presbyterian, grocer, married Jane Hamilton Hanna, 53, wife, Presbyterian, married Annie Elizabeth Hanna, 17, daughter, Presbyterian, single Catherine Wilhelmina Hanna, 14, daughter, Presbyterian scholar, single Bedelia O’Flynn, 29, boarder, RC, sales lady (drapery), single Janet Kerr, 20, boarder, Presbyterian, book keeper, single
1912-1923	William J. Hanna			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
1924	Patrick Duffin			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) 1925	Patrick Maguire			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) 1926-1928	Edward McCormick			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) 1929	Vacant			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) 1930	James Gallagher			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
a) c.1932-1947	Robert Devenney			HB05/13/015.
b) 1925	Vacant			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
b) 1926-1928	W. P. O’Brien			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
b) 1929-1930	Vacant			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
b) 1931	Leslie Legg			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
b) ?-1944	W. P. O’Brien			HB05/13/015.
1947-after 1957	Leslie Legg		Tailor?	HB05/13/015. Working Group review 20/02/24.
1980s?	Hugh Spence		Bicycle repairs	Working Group review 20/02/24. Hugh Spence died in 2021.
1980s	Willie McMullan		Butchers	HB05/13/015. Working Group review 20/02/24.
1980s	Willie McMullan		Motorcycle shop	Working Group review 20/02/24.
2003	Vacant			HB05/13/015.
?-2019?		Castle Rugs	Homewares shop	Working Group review 20/02/24.
2023?-2024		Grace & Glam	Beauty salon
2024-present		Skye Boman Beauty	Beauty salon