Craigarogan is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, south east of Roughfort, and about 6km west of Glengormley. It has developed at the junction of the Bernice Road and the Clarke Lodge Road. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 69 people. It lies within the Newtownabbey Borough Council area. A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Antrim Area: 2,844 km² Population (est. ... Motto: (French for God and my right)2 Anthem: UK: God Save the Queen Regional: (De facto) Londonderry Air Capital Belfast Largest city Belfast Official language(s) English (De facto), Irish, Ulster Scots 3 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Office suspended... Glengormley is a town located in the borough of Newtownabbey, bordering the north-western edge of Belfast 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. ... Newtownabbey Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ...

Places of interest

• Craigarogan chamber tomb or passage grave (in Irish: Carn Greine, ie Cairn of the Sun). Locally it is pronounced as Carngraney and as a result sometimes called Granny’s Grave (which is also a corruption of Grania's Grave). (OS map ref: J270842).

A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures. ... A passage tomb near the town of Sligo in Ireland A Passage grave (sometimes hyphenated) or Passage tomb is a tomb, usually dating to the Neolithic, where the burial chamber is reached along a distinct, and usually low, passage. ...

History

In the Irish Rebellion of 1798, Henry Joy McCracken raised the standard of rebellion on 6 June 1798 at Craigarogan rath, near Roughfort. Many Antrim men clearly were cautious because comparatively few United Irishmen assembled at Craigarogan. Singing the Marseillaise, they marched towards Antrim, only to be defeated in the Battle of Antrim the next day. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798 in Irish), or 1798 rebellion as it is known locally, was an uprising in 1798, lasting several months, against the British dominated Kingdom of Ireland. ... Henry Joy McCracken Henry Joy McCracken (31 August 1767 – 17 July 1798) was a cotton manafacturer and industrialist, Presbyterian, radical Irish republican, and a founding member, along with Theobald Wolfe Tone, James Napper Tandy, and Robert Emmet, of the Society of the United Irishmen. ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1798 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Antrim in Northern Ireland may refer to Antrim town. ... The Society of the United Irishmen was a political organisation in eighteenth century Ireland that sought independence from Great Britain. ... La Marseillaise IPA: is the national anthem of France. ... The Battle of Antrim was fought on June 7, 1798, between Great Britain and Ireland. ...

References

• NI Neighbourhood Information System
• Draft Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan 2015
• Irish megaliths - Craigarogan
• Irish megaliths
• Henry Joy McCracken

See also

• List of villages in Northern Ireland
• List of towns in Northern Ireland