Carrickfergus (barony)

This article is about the administrative unit. For the peerage, see Baron Carrickfergus.

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Carrickfergus
Carraig Fhearghais[1] (Irish)
Location of the barony of Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Location of the barony of Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
CountryNorthern Ireland
CountyAntrim

Carrickfergus is a barony in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.[2][3] It is bounded on the south-east by Belfast Lough, and otherwise surrounded by the barony of Belfast Lower.[2][3] It is coextensive with the civil parish of Carrickfergus or St Nicholas[4][5][6][7] and corresponds to the former county of the town of Carrickfergus, a county corporate encompassing Carrickfergus town.[8]

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  4. ^ Commissioners 1835, §5
  5. ^ Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Carrickfergus Parish in the 1830s". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
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  7. ^ "Carrickfergus". The Parliamentary gazetteer of Ireland: adapted to the new poor-law, franchise, municipal and ecclesiastical arrangements, and compiled with a special reference to the lines of railroad and canal communication, as existing in 1814–45. Vol. III. A. Fullarton and co. 1846. pp. 324–5.
  8. ^ "Carrickfergus". Municipal Boundaries Commission (Ireland): part III: report; minutes of evidence (PDF). Command papers. Vol. Cmd.3089. 1881. pp. 254–5.