67-69 Castle Street

November 2024

Project Attributes

Project:

Ballycastle Museum

Owner:

Ballycastle Museum

Date:

28th October 2025

Address: 67-69 Castle Street

Listing: not listed

Construction date: 1840-1859 (Historic Buildings Record HB05/15/019)

Year	Owner/lessee	Business name	Building use	Notes
1739	John McCurdy			Datestone reading “This house was built by John McCurdy 1739”, found in an outbuilding to rear of existing building.
1835	John McMichael and Son			HB05/15/019.
1859	Hugh McMichael			HB05/15/019.
no.67) 1864-1887	Hugh McMichael			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.67) 1888-1901	James McMichael			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.67) 1901	James McMichael		Dwelling	Census – building no. 5 James McMichael, 42, head of family, COI, school attendance officer, not married
no.67) 1902-1911	James McMichael			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.67) 1911	James McMichael		Dwelling	Census – building no. 5 James McMichael, 53, head of family, COI, clerk to old age pensioner sub committee and school attendance officer, single
no.67) 1912-1922	James McMichael			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.67) 1923-1928	Elizabeth Connor			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.67) 1929	William Johnston			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.67) 1930	Walter Biggart			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.67) 1931	Cassie Delargy			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.67) 1933-1946	Vacant			HB05/15/019.
no.67) 1946-1956	James Johnstone			HB05/15/019.
no.69) 1864	John Black and John Scally			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1865-1870	Charles McCoghlan			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1871-1880	Henry Butler			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1881	Vacant			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1882-1883	Francis McNeile			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1884	Representative of Francis McNeile			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1885	Francis McNeile			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1886-1887	Margaret McNeile			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1888-1894	Daniel Mooney			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1894-1898	Representatives of Daniel Mooney			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1899-1901	Daniel Mooney			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1901	Anthony McKinley		Grocery	Census – building no.4 Anthony McKinley, 56, head of family, RC, grocer, not married
no.69) 1902-1911	Patrick Mooney			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1911	Anthony McKinley		Dwelling and shop	Census – building no.4 Anthony McKinley, 64, head of family, RC, wallpaper stationery, single
no.69) 1912-1921	Patrick Mooney			SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
no.69) 1922-1928	Anthony McKinley		Hardware store or newsagents	SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers. IC (in correspondence with Frances McMichael). JMcC research states Anthony McKinley was a world champion weightlifter and was known locally the “Grey Haired Hercules”!! He spent many years in America before returning home and opening his hardware store.
no.69) 1929-1930	William Johnston	Johnston Flesher	Butchers	SMcM research based on Griffith’s Valuation registers.
1959-1963?	Representatives of William Johnstone		Butchers	Both properties held by the same lease, HB05/15/019. Kevin McAfee (10/12/24) and IC (in correspondence with Frances McMichael) note that William Johnston was followed in the butchers by his son James/Jamie Johnston.
1963?-1965	Joseph (or Gerard?) Douthart		Butchers	HB05/15/019. Kevin McAfee (10/12/24). IC (in correspondence with Frances McMichael).
1965-1971	Anthony McKinley		Butchers(?) and taxi firm	HB05/15/019. Kevin McAfee (10/12/24). Working Group review 23/01/25. Anthony McKinley’s daughter IC (in correspondence with Frances McMichael) Anthony had previous worked “on the trains til 1962. Then they bought a new bungalow on Moyle road … He was a bread man and had his taxi business there. He bought the butcher shop on Castle st as a better stand for his taxi business but still ran the butcher shop.” Quoting her father’s autobiography, IC writes “Anthony went to America in the latter part of the 19^th century, came back and opened a News’ agency and knick knack shop on Castle Street [owner 1901-1928]. Anthony never married. The shop then went to William Johnston who opened a butchery business. It was passed to his son James who then sold it to Gerard Douthart of Market Street. This was about 1963. He then sold to me, grandnephew of Anthony McKinley. I took it over on1st November 1965. I modernised the shop and sold it on to Anthony Kearney of Ballymena, formerly of Newry in 1971.”
1978-?	Anthony Kearney	Golden Chip	Butchers, then chip shop	JMcC research. Anthony Kearney ran a butcher’s shop on the site before opening the chip shop (Working Group review 23/01/25). Visible in a photo from November 1991 from the Chronicle and Constitution Archive, Coleraine Museum.
Before 2023 – present		Golden Chip	Chip shop