The Embankment of the Coast Road at Altrahack, Ballintoy Demense

These photographs were kindly contributed to the project by Maurice Mc Henry.

The Irish word ‘alt’ refers to a glen or ravine, with a river running through it. When the coast road was built it had to be supported by this embankment, to cross the ravine.

According to Hunter Kane, a man called Culvin Getty was murdered here, by hanging him over the top of the wall by his hair, before cutting his Achilles tendons, and dropping him to the ground below. It has been proposed that he managed to crawl from here to the cliffs edge before falling into the sea.

This record was collected as part of Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust’s Uncharted Histories of the Causeway Coast Project. Please click here to learn more about this project.