Broughshane

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Broughshane (in Irish: Bruach Sheáin, ie Shane’s dwelling) is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated 3 miles north-east of Ballymena on the A42 road. Broughshane is known as the Garden Village of Ulster. In 1994 the village was the winner of Ulster in Bloom, Britain in Bloom and Europe in Bloom. It had a population of 2,364 people in the 2001 Census. Broughshane is situated in the Ballymena Borough Council area.

The quaint pub, The Thatch Inn, has a thatched roof and is a Grade A listed building. It was originally a planter’s house. The local Masonic Lodge used to meet upstairs in The Thatch. Now a Masonic Hall built in 1904 stands next to the pub.

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Broughshane was the ancestral home of Sir George White VC, the most decorated soldier in the British Army and the hero of the Siege of Ladysmith. There is a memorial in the Presbyterian Church graveyard.
His son, Captain James Robert "Jack" White, co-founded and drilled the Irish Citizen Army before the Easter Rising of 1916 and later went on to fight the Fascist Regime in the Spanish Civil War.
James Nesbitt, a well known actor was born in this town.

Broughshane is classified as an intermediate settlement by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (ie with a population between 2,250 and 4,500 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 2,364 people living in Broughshane. Of these:

19.3% were aged under 16 and 23.6% were aged 60 and over
48.6% of the population were male and 51.4% were female
4.9% were from a Catholic background and 93.5% were from a Protestant background
2.8% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed.

For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service