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County Antrim Geography
"Antrim, a county of Ireland, in the province of Ulster, 46 Irish miles long, and 27 broad; bounded on the E and N by the sea, W by Londonderry and Lough Neagh, and S by Down. This county contains 605 Irish or 972 English square miles, 387,200 Irish plantation acres, equal to 622,059 English ones, 21,222 houses and 261,601 inhabitants. In it is situated a great natural curiosity called the Giant's Causeway, consisting of lofty pillars of basalts, all of angular shapes.
The linen manufacture is carried on very extensively in this county.
It sends five members to parliament.
The principal rivers are the Bann and Lagan. The principal towns are Belfast, Carrickfergus, Antrim, Lisburn, Ballymena, and Ballymoney."
Genealogy and History Resources
Ulster Historical Foundation
The Corn Exchange,
31 Gordon Street,
Belfast,
BT1 2LG
Tel: +44 (028) 9066 1988
Email: enquiry@uhf.org.ukBulletin Boards and Surname Resource Pages
Submit and View Queries and Surnames Submit a Query or Surnames for your lost Antrim County, Ireland ancestor. Please use the linking feature only for genealogical material otherwise your query may be deleted.
Mailing List(s)
County Antrim Mailing List. To subscribe send the word "subscribe" (without the quotes) as the only text in the body of a message to NIR-ANTRIM-L-request@rootsweb.com for the list mode or NIR-ANTRIM-D-request@rootsweb.com to just receive the digest.
You will find other mailing lists of interest to Irish researchers on the Northern Ireland Resource Pages.
On-Line Records
IslandMagee Parish Marriage Records
IslandMagee Parish Baptism Records
Townlands of Ballymoney Parish
1861 Griffith's Valuation of Ballymoney County Antrim, Ireland
The WorldGenWeb Project Archives
Related County Antrim Resources
The Battle of Antrim an excellent website about the 1798 Battle of Antrim.
From-Ireland.net - lots of on-line records here.
Ulstar Historic Foundation - lots of on-line records
