Loughguile

Loughguile, also spelt Loughgiel or Loughgeel (all pronounced /lɒxˈɡiːl/ lokh-geel and derived from Irish: Loch gCaol, meaning "thin lake"),^[1] is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is 13 km east of Ballymoney, at the edge of the Glens of Antrim. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 2,321.

Sport

The hurling team, Loughgiel Shamrocks, is the only team in Ulster to have won the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship, doing so in 1983. The club also shares the highest number of Antrim Senior Hurling Championship titles (17) with McQuillans GAC Ballycastle.

People

• Bishop Henry Henry (1846–1908) was from Loughguile.
• Cahal Daly (1917–2009), Bishop of Down and Connor and Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, was from Loughguile.
• Monsignor Sean Connolly, Vicar General of the Diocese of Down and Connor, is from Loughguile.

References

1. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland (see archival records)

• NI Neighbourhood Information System
• Cahal Daly
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