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Jul 10, 2014 · It was to the house now known as Beechwood that Alexander McNeile, of Colliers’ near Ballycastle, moved around the year 1798. McNeile was a pretty busy man of affairs and is described in Shaw Masan’s Parochial Survey of Ireland , Vol. II, p. 503 as possessing “a handsome fortune.”
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Oct 17, 2005 · At the time of the Rebellion of 1798, Mrs. Alexander McNeile, and her family were sent over to Capt. Hector at Ugadale for safety and became well acquainted with him and his many visitors. Rose McNeile was a beauty and her old uncle the General, took her to Bath in the hope of making a good match.
Jun 18, 2024 · In 1829, Parkmount was sold to John McNeile Esq. This family were descended from the McNeiles of Machrihanish on the west coast of Scotland, who had arrived in Ireland in 1625. John McNeile was the son of Alexander McNeile of Ballycastle. Born in 1785, as a young man he travelled to South America.
McNeile, Hugh Boyd (1795–1879), clergyman and dean of Ripon, was born 15 July 1795 at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, the son of Alexander McNeile, who originally lived at Colliers Hall, Ballycastle, a landowner, land agent and merchant, and high sheriff of Antrim in 1832.
Aug 9, 2024 · CRAIGDUN CASTLE, near Cullybackey, County Antrim, is a Victorian-Baronial style house built of basalt, in 1867, by Edward (Eddie) McNeill. It comprises two storeys with a gabled attic. There is a substantial five-storey tower with pepper-pot bartizans.
Jan 28, 2023 · Mr McNeill died in 1790, and was succeeded by his eldest son, EDMUND ALEXANDER McNEILL JP (c 1785-1879), of Cushendun, who was served heir, in 1815, to the entailed estate of Ugadale, in Kintyre; but in an action to recover possession, was defeated by the prescriptive title of the occupier.
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McNeile was at first inclined to accept the doctrines of Edward Irving, which Drummond had adopted, but very soon changed his views, and published three sermons on 'Miracles,' 1831-2, in which the tenets of the Iryingites were severely handled.