Alexander Stewart of Acton, Co. Armagh

Dock

Quay at Ballintoy, Co. Antrim

Built 30th Nov -0001

Description

Alexander Stewart, with the aid of grants from the Irish Parliament, developed open-cast coal-mining and an associated quay at Ballintoy Co. Antrim c. 1757-1759.

Notes

George Hill 'The Stewarts of Ballintoy: With Notices of Other Families of the District in the Seventeenth Century. The Stewarts of Ballintoy' Ulster Journal of Archaeology Second Series, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan., 1901), pp. 9-17.