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Ballycarry is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated midway between Larne and Carrickfergus overlooking Islandmagee. It is within the Larne Borough Council area. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 981 people. A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...
County Antrim ( in [Gaelic) is one of the six Irish counties that form Northern Ireland. ...
official_languages = Englishde facto5| Dieu et mon droit (Royal motto) (French for God and my right)3 Northern Irelands location within the UK Official languages English, Irish, Ulster Scots Capital and largest city Belfast First Minister Office suspended Area - Total Ranked 4th 13,843 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked...
Larne (Latharna in Irish which means the lands of Lathar who was an Irish prince) is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a population of approximately 31,000 people. ...
Carrickfergus (Carraig Fhearghais, meaning Rock of Fergus, in Irish) is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ...
Islandmagee is a peninsula in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom located between two towns: Larne and Carrickfergus. ...
Larne Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ...
Census 2001 is the name by which the national census conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001 is known. ...
The town is home to Ballycarry Primary School and Ballycarry Presbyterian Church. Founded in 1613, Ballycarry is the oldest congregation in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. The present church building dates from 1830. Ballycarry Community Association organises the Broadisland Gathering community festival held each year and last in September 2005. Presbyterianism is a form of church government, practiced by many (although not all) of those Protestant churches (known as Reformed churches), which historically subscribed to the teachings of John Calvin. ...
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2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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James Orr, known as the Bard of Ballycarry, was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver Poets, and was writing contemporaneously with Robert Burns. He was one of many Ulster Presbyterians who fled to America after taking part in the ill-fated United Irish Rising in 1798. He returned to Ballycarry under an amnesty and died in the village in 1816. An imposing monument to Orr, erected by local Freemasons in 1831, is sited in the adjacent Templecorran cemetery. Robert Burns, preeminent Scottish poet Burns redirects here. ...
1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
2001 Census Ballycarry is classified as a Small Village or Hamlet by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)(ie with population between 500 and 1,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 981 people living in Ballycarry. Of these: April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ...
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
- 23.1% were aged under 16 years and 15.1% were aged 60 and over
- 50.2% of the population were male and 49.9% were female
- 2.9% were from a Catholic background and 92.3% were from a Protestant background
- 3.8% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed
For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing a split from within the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe —a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ...
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