Corkey

Village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Human settlement in Northern Ireland

List of places: UK; Northern Ireland; Antrim

55°03′40″N 6°18′22″W / 55.061°N 6.306°W / 55.061; -6.306

Corkey or Corky^[1] is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Located 11 miles east of Ballymoney, it is within the Ballymoney Borough Council area, and is at the edge of the Glens of Antrim. The villages of Loughguile and Cloughmills are nearby. It had a population of 202 people (59 households) in the 2011 Census.^[2]

The Scottish renewable energy company Scottish Power Renewables operate a ten-windmill wind farm in Corkey. The wind farm is on Slievenahanagh mountain.^[3] Local company W & J Taggart own and run Corkey quarry, supplying stones to local building contractors.^[4]

Altnahinch Dam and Slieveanorra Forest are outside Corkey.

The local school is St Anne's Primary School.

References

^ Placenames Database of Ireland
^ "Corkey". Census 2011 Results. NI Statistics and Research Agency. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
^ "Our Business" Scottish Power Renewables.com
^ W & J Taggart Ltd Archived 10 February 2013 at archive.today Yell.com