Massereene Lower is a
barony Barony may refer to:
* Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron
* Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron
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in
County Antrim
County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...
,
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
.
To its west lies
Lough Neagh
Lough Neagh ( ) is a freshwater lake in Northern Ireland and is the largest lake in the island of Ireland, the United Kingdom and the British Isles. It has a surface area of and supplies 40% of Northern Ireland's water. Its main inflows come ...
, and it is bordered by four other baronies:
Massereene Upper
Massereene Upper is a barony in southwest County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It roughly matches the former district of Killultagh (). to the south;
Belfast Upper
Belfast Upper is a Barony (Ireland), barony in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. To its east lies the barony of Belfast (barony), Belfast and Belfast Lough, and it is bordered by five other baronies: Belfast Lower to the north-east; Antrim Upper ...
to the east;
Antrim Upper
Antrim Upper is a barony in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is bordered by six other baronies: Antrim Lower to the north; Toome Upper to the west; Massereene Lower to the south-west; Belfast Upper to the south; Belfast Lower to the south-eas ...
to the north; and
Toome Upper
Toome Upper is a barony in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. To its south lies Lough Neagh, and it is bordered by five other baronies: Toome Lower to the north; Antrim Lower to the north-east; Antrim Upper to the east; Massereene Lower to the sou ...
to the north-west.
List of settlements
Below is a list of settlements in Massereene Lower:
Towns
*
Muckamore
Population centres
*
Aldergrove
*Diamond
*
Killead
*
Loanends
Loanends is a Hamlet (place), hamlet located in the townlands of Grange of Carmavy and Ballymather Lower, near Antrim, County Antrim, Antrim in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The settlement's name derives from the term 'loan-end', which transla ...
*
Nutt's Corner
Royal Air Force Nutts Corner or more simply RAF Nutts Corner is a former Royal Air Force station located east of Crumlin, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and north west of Belfast.
It was originally a civil airfield, then it became a military ...
List of civil parishes
Below is a list of civil parishes in Massereene Lower:
*Grange of Muckamore
*
Killead
Archaeology
The barony contains the largest concentration of
ringfort
Ringforts, ring forts or ring fortresses are circular fortified settlements that were mostly built during the Bronze Age up to about the year 1000. They are found in Northern Europe, especially in Ireland. There are also many in South Wales ...
s in
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, with three ringforts per square kilometre.
References
Archaeological sites in County Antrim
Clandeboye
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