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Murlough Bay (fromIrishMurlach, meaning 'sea inlet') is a bay on the north coast ofCounty Antrim,Northern Ireland betweenFair Head andTorr Head. Known for its remote location, the area overlooksRathlin Island and has views across theIrish Sea to theMull of Kintyre,Islay,Jura and other Scottish islands.The local geology is typical of the Antrim topography withbasalt overlayingsandstone andlimestone. The area has manykilns used in the production oflime.
The original Gaelic name was Muir-bolc. According to the 11th centuryPreface to the Amra Coluim Cille, Murlough Bay was the place whereSaint Columba landed after sailing from Iona to Ireland to attend the Synod of Drumceatc. 595 AD.[1]
Although he is now buried in Dublin, Murlough Bay was the burial place of choice ofSir Roger Casement, a former British government diplomat. Knighted by King George V in 1911 and an Irish Nationalist revolutionary leader in 1916, he was executed by the government of theUnited Kingdom fortreason in August 1916 duringWorld War I. While awaiting execution in Pentonville prison, he sent a letter to his cousin Gertrude Bannister in which he wrote "Take my body back with you and let it lie in the old churchyard in Murlough Bay". Casement was a frequent visitor toBallycastle, where he stayed with relatives and found a close affinity with the beauty and wildness of the location. A plinth at Murlough Bay is what remains of a more recent cross which was erected on the site to commemorate Casement.[2] Each August, a small memorial is held here in his honour byRepublican Sinn Féin.[citation needed]
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