Monkstown, County Antrim Explained

Type:electoral ward and townland
Pushpin Map:Northern Ireland
Coordinates:54.6848°N -5.8951°W

Monkstown (Irish: Baile na Manach)[1] is a townland[2] (of 811 acres)[3] and electoral ward in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is within the urban area of Newtownabbey and the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council area. The townland was previously called Ballynamanagh [2] [4] [5] [6] It is also situated in the civil parish of Carnmoney and the historic barony of Belfast Lower.[3]

Monkstown is said to be the burial place of Fergus Mor Mac Eirc, king of Dal Riata.[7] which suggests a religious house was established in the 5th century CE. It possibly became a grange- a farm that was managed by a monastery, and was possibly associated with the monastery at Woodburn in Carrickfergus.[8]

Railways

Monkstown railway station is currently closed on the Belfast-Derry railway line run by Northern Ireland Railways.

Education

Schools and colleges which serve the area include Abbey Community College, Hollybank Primary School and University of Ulster.

Sport

The local association football clubs, 18th Newtownabbey Old Boys F.C. and Nortel F.C., play in the Northern Amateur Football League.

Notable people

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Baile na Manach/Monkstown . 2023-12-10 . logainm.ie . en.
  2. http://www.logainm.ie/?text=Monkstown&placeID=61596 Placenames Database of Ireland
  3. Web site: Monkstown. IreAtlas Townlands Database. 12 April 2015.
  4. Book: Reeves, William . Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore, Consisting of a taxation of these Dioceses . September 2009 . BiblioBazaar, LLC . 978-1-113-69516-1 . 69 . 2010-02-04.
  5. Book: Hill, George . An historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim : Including Notices Of Some Other Septs, Irish And Scottish . 1873 . Kessinger Publishing . 1-4326-4080-1 . 453 . Ballynamanagh. . 2010-02-04.
  6. Book: St. J. Clarke, The Rev. H. J. . Thirty Centuries in South East Antrim. The Parish of Coole or Carnmoney . 1938 . 128 . 2010-02-04.
  7. Book: Hill, George . An historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim : Including Notices Of Some Other Septs, Irish And Scottish . Kessinger Publishing . 1-4326-4080-1 . 2019-07-24.
  8. Irish Itinerary of Father Edmund MacCana. Edmund. McCann. William. Reeves. Edmund. McCana. Ulster Journal of Archaeology. 2. 1854. 44–59. 20608707.

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