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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANTRIM

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 154 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANTRIM , a market-town in the west of the county Antrim, Ireland, in the
south
  parliamentary division, on the banks of the Six-Mile Water, half a mile from Lough Neagh, in a beautiful and fertile valley. Pop. (19o1) 1826. It is 21; M. north-west of Belfast by the Northern Counties (Midland) railway, and is also the terminus of a branch of the
Great
  Northern railway from Lisburn. There is nothing in the town specially worthy of notice, but the environs, including Shane's Castle and Antrim Castle, possess features of considerable
interest
 . About a mile from the town is one of the most perfect of the round towers of Ireland, 93 ft. high and 50 in circumference at the base. It stands in the grounds of Steeple, a neighbouring seat, where is also the " Witches' Stone," a prehistoric
monument
 . A battle was fought near Antrim between the English and Irish in the
ANTWERP
reign of
Edward
  III.; and in 1642 a naval engagement took place on Lough Neagh, for Viscount Massereene and Ferrard (who founded Antrim Castle in 1662) had a right to maintain a fighting
fleet
  on the lough. On the 7th of June 1798 there was a smart action in the town between the king's troops and a large
body
  of rebels, in which the latter were defeated, and Lord O'Neill mortally wounded. Before the Union Antrim returned two members to
parliament
  by virtue of letters patent granted in 1666 by Charles II. There are manufactures of
paper
 , linen, and woollen cloth. The government is in the hands of town commissioners.


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