Ballycastle Museum Consultation

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council are currently working with the Friends of Ballycastle Museum and other stakeholders to seek funding for developing Ballycastle Museum in the Grade B+ mid-18th century Courthouse and Market building in Castle Street, Ballycastle. The museum’s collection includes key collections relating to the unique history of the area including the Irish Home Industries Workshop & Shop and Boyd’s 18th century Ballycastle, as well as industrial heritage and the social and cultural traditions of Ballycastle and the Glens.

If you would like to be involved in further sessions to help develop the museum or to hear more about our project, please follow us on Facebook @ballycastlemuseumcms or email us at cms@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk.

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* 1. Before Covid 19, how many times a year would you have visited Ballycastle Museum?

Never

Once

Twice

3-5 times

6 or more times

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* 2. Would you visit more often and encourage others to do so if it was improved?

Yes

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* 3. What facilities would you want in the new museum? Please tick all that apply.

Permanent exhibition space

Temporary exhibition space

Meeting/event space

Refreshment facilities/community kitchen

Toilets

Lift access

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Which services do you consider are important to provide at the new museum? Please tick all that apply.

Heritage skills development training (i.e. tour guiding, heritage crafts, oral histories, research skills, working with collections, public interpretation)

Help with genealogies

Events

Longer opening times

Outreach programme for schools, care homes and other groups

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Where should the new Ballycastle Museum be located? Please select your preferred location.

The exisiting location at 59 Castle St

Another large historic building within the town

A dedicated new build

Part of the proposed new Council leisure facility

Another location (please specify)

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* 6. How could the museum and its collection be better promoted to visitors? Please tick all that apply.

Better website

More events

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Would you consider volunteering to help the new museum?

If so, in what way would you consider volunteering? Please tick any that apply.

Front of house

Demonstrations, talks or tours

General admin

PR/social media

Other (please specify)

I would not be interested in / able to volunteer in the museum

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* 8. Which of the following themes would you be interested in learning more about? Please tick any that apply.

Our famous sons and daughters (such as the Boyds, Casements, Gages, MacDonnells, McIldowneys, Louise McIlroy, Ada Mc’Neill, Rose Young, Moira O’Neill, Margaret Dobbs)

Local Myths and Legends (such as the Children of Lir/the four swans, Deidre of the Sorrows, Princess Taise, the Black Nun, and the Grey Man)

Prehistory (from the first people to the coming of Christianity)

Medieval times (kings, castles and Bonamargy friary)

Industrial heritage (including Stone Age axe factories, salt and coal mines, railways, harbours, Marconi’s radio communication)

Ballycastle’s role as Ireland’s 18th century ‘silicon valley’ as it developed under Colonel Hugh Boyd when he built ‘a new town’

Ballycastle’s early 20th century Irish Home Industries Workshop for traditional crafts and its place in the Arts and Crafts, and Gaelic Revivals.

The way we lived our lives (traditional ways of life in Ballycastle and the Glens, including music, entertainment, work and school)

The Oul Lammas Fair

Feis na nGLeann (The Glens Feis)

Local natural and built heritage

Maritime heritage including connections to Rathlin and Scotland, and the Atlantic convoy route during the World Wars.

Ballycastle’s connection to America (and the wider world) through the Irish Home Industries Workshop, including the 1904 St Louis World Fair and President McKinley

Other (please specify)

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* 9. What is your gender?

Female

Male

Nonbinary

Prefer not to say

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* 10. What is your age?

Under 16

16-25

26-40

41-60

61 or over

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* 11. Are you a … ?

Local resident of Ballycastle and the Glens

Resident of the Causeway Coast and Glens area

Visitor from within Northern Ireland

Visitor from the England, Scotland or Wales

Visitor from the Republic of Ireland

Visitor from the rest of the Europe

Visitor from North America

Visitor from the rest of the world (please specify country)

Ballycastle Museum Consultation

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* 1. Before Covid 19, how many times a year would you have visited Ballycastle Museum?

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* 2. Would you visit more often and encourage others to do so if it was improved?

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* 3. What facilities would you want in the new museum? Please tick all that apply.

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* 4. Which services do you consider are important to provide at the new museum? Please tick all that apply.

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* 5. Where should the new Ballycastle Museum be located? Please select your preferred location.

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* 6. How could the museum and its collection be better promoted to visitors? Please tick all that apply.

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* 7. Would you consider volunteering to help the new museum? If so, in what way would you consider volunteering? Please tick any that apply.

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* 8. Which of the following themes would you be interested in learning more about? Please tick any that apply.

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* 9. What is your gender?

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* 10. What is your age?

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* 11. Are you a … ?

* 7. Would you consider volunteering to help the new museum?

If so, in what way would you consider volunteering? Please tick any that apply.