Dervock

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Dervock (in Irish: Dairbheog, ie oak plantation) is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, about 6 kilometres north east of Ballymoney. It is sited on the banks of the Dervock River, within a triangle of main traffic routes linking Coleraine, Ballycastle and Ballymoney. It is within the Ballymoney Borough Council area.

The village includes a number of commercial businesses, a primary school and doctor’s surgery, as well as recreational and community facilities. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 601 people. Recent developments include the Market House community regeneration project (which includes two retail units, a community office and apartments) funded by the International Fund for Ireland, a new Riverside Park, and an environmental improvement scheme centred on the main street.

1 Places of interest
2 Transport
3 People
4 2001 Census
5 References
6 See also

[edit] Places of interest

The North Irish Horse Inn, a listed building, named after a famous British Army regiment, has military memorabilia on display inside, and there is also a remembrance fountain built in 1878.

[edit] Transport

Dervock railway station opened on 18 October 1880, but finally closed on 3 July 1950.^[1] It was on the Ballycastle Railway, a narrow gauge railway which ran 17 miles connecting Ballycastle to Ballymoney, on the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR), later Northern Counties Committee (NCC), main line to Derry.^[2]

[edit] People

On 14 July 1912, Kenneth Kane McArthur won the Olympic marathon in South African colours in Stockholm, Sweden. He had been born in Dervock on 10 February 1881 and emigrated to South Africa in 1901.
The great-great-grandfather of William McKinley, a President of the United States assassinated in 1901, came from Dervock.

[edit] 2001 Census

Dervock is classified as a small village or hamlet by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (ie with a population between 500 and 1,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 601 people living in Dervock. Of these:

22.8% were aged under 16 years and 13.3% were aged 60 and over
47.9% of the population were male and 52.1% were female
5.8% were from a Catholic background and 93.3% were from a Protestant background
7.9% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed

For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service

[edit] References

^ Dervock station. Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved on 2007-09-23.
^ Baker, Michael HC (1999). Irish Narrow Gauge Railways. A View from the Past. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-2680-7.