Kilconway (
) 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
* Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...
in
County Antrim
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,
Northern Ireland
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.
It is bordered by six other baronies:
Dunluce Upper to the north;
Glenarm Lower to the east;
Antrim Lower to the south-east;
Toome Lower to the south;
Loughinsholin to the south-west; and
Coleraine
Coleraine ( ; from , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, No ...
to the north-east.
Kilconway also formed part of the medieval territory known as
the Route. Springmount Bog is located within the barony.
History
List of settlements
Below is a list of settlements in Kilconway:
Villages
*
Cargan
*
Cloughmills
Cloughmills or Cloghmills ( ) is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Ballymoney is 9 miles to the north-west and Ballymena is 10 miles to the south. It had a population of 1,309 people in the 2011 census. It is in Causeway Coast and ...
*
Dunloy
*
Rasharkin
Population centres
*Clogh
*
Finvoy
*Glarryford
*Glenravel
*Killagan
*Loughguile (part in barony of Dunluce Upper)
*Newtown Crommelin
List of civil parishes
Below is a list of civil parishes in Kilconway:
*
Ballymoney
Ballymoney ( , meaning 'townland of the moor') is a town and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is within the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area. The civil parish of Ballymoney is situated ...
(also partly in barony of
Dunluce Upper, County Antrim and
North East Liberties of Coleraine,
County Londonderry
County Londonderry (Ulster Scots dialects, Ulster-Scots: ''Coontie Lunnonderrie''), also known as County Derry (), is one of the six Counties of Northern Ireland, counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty-two Counties of Ireland, count ...
)
*Craigs (split with barony of Toome Lower)
*Dunaghy
*
Finvoy
*Grange of Dundermot
*Killagan (split with barony of Dunluce Upper)
*Loughguille (split with barony of Dunluce Upper)
*Rasharkin
*Newtown Crommelin
References
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