Antrim

Antrim is a town and civil parish in County Antrim within the northeast of Northern Ireland, at the banks of the Six Mile Water, 1/2 a mile northeast of Lough Neagh. It had a populace of 20,001 humans inside the 2001 Census. It is the county city of County Antrim and became the administrative centre of Antrim Borough Council. It is 22 miles northwest of Belfast by way of rail. According to culture, a monastery changed into based near the prevailing web page of the round tower approximately a mile outside the town in AD 495, thirty years after the dying of Saint Patrick, to take ahead his ministry, with a small settlement developing up round it.

The territory around the town was known as Dal n Araidi which blanketed much of what is now County Antrim. By 1596, an English agreement had grown up round a ford across the Sixmilewater River. The All Saints Parish Church has a datestone of 1596 with the phrases 'Gall-Antrum' carved on it - this will be translated as 'The Antrum of the English/foreigner'. Hugh Clotworthy, father of the Anglo-Irish flesh presser John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount Massereene, supervised the constructing of at ease navy quarters beside the old Norman motte. This later have become the web page of Antrim Castle. Hugh turned into knighted in 1617 and appointed High Sheriff of County Antrim.