Joyce Cary (1888-1957) was born in Shipquay St., Derry but the family seat was at Castlecary, Moville since Elizabethan times. The house has been demolished but the demesne can be seen marked by some fine ash trees at the top of a hill overlooking Lough Foyle near Redcastle Hotel. This is Cary country rooted in history. After Oxford, Joyce worked in Africa and in 1944 produced a book called THE HORSE’S MOUTH which was made into a film starring Alex…
Arthur Joyce Lunell Cary (1888-1957) was born in Shipquay St. Derry, but the family seat was at Castlecary, a townland south of Moville, near the Redcastle Hotel in Inishowen. In fact, so much of the family history is linked with the district between Redcastle and Muff that it can be rightly called Cary country. The Cary homestead was sold to a local farmer about 70 years ago and the house was demolished some years later. Access to the site of…