Strangers Plot', where the poor of the parish where buried, including those who lost their lives in the parish during the Great Famine (Ireland) Reformed Presbyterian Church (Covenanter) Cullybackey Millennium Riverwalk Galgorm Resort and Spa Craigdun Castle, a 19th-century Scottish baronial castle that is set a mile outside the village. Believed to have been designed by Charles Lanyon, it was left to the NHS as a home for multiple sclerosis sufferers in the 1950s and continued in this role until the 1990s, when it was sold by the NHS. The current owners have extensively renovated the property and gardens, and in 2011 the house was a finalist in the BBC Northern Ireland House of the Year programme. Sport Cullybackey Blues Football Club Music Groups and Associations Cullybackey Army Cadets Cullybackey Girls Brigade Cullybackey Scouts Cullybackey Girl Guides Cullybackey and District Historical Society Cullybackey British Legion Cullybackey Orange Order Cullybackey Women's Institute The 9:30 club Cullybackey Rocks Cullybackey Eurospar gammon slap association Transport Translink (Northern Ireland) run both trains and bus's through the village daily. The first sod on the Belfast railway line was turned in 1845 and the line from Ballymena to Portrush was completed in 1855 The railway line is still well used by the population of Cullybackey today with trains stopping at the station almost hourly throughout the day. There are bus stops at both ends and in the middle of the Main Street. bus stops are dotted around the surrounding townlands. Education Cullybackey College Buick Memorial Primary School The Diamond Primary School Demography 2011 Census It had a population of 2,569 people (1,088 households) in the 2011 Census. On Census day in 2011: 4.0% were from a Catholic background and 88.4% were from a Protestant background 2001 Census Cullybackey is classified as an intermediate settlement by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e., with population between 2,250 and 4,500 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 2,405 people living in Cullybackey. Of these: 19.5% were aged under 16 and 22.3% were aged 60 and over 47.1% of the population were male and 52.9% were female 1.2% were from a Catholic background and 97.0% were from a Protestant background 3.3% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed. For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service See also List of villages in Northern Ireland List of towns in Northern Ireland References External links Craigdun Castle Villages in