County
Antrim is one of the
nine counties of Ulster.
Antrim (Self Catering, Antrim,
Ireland), a county of
Ireland, in the province
of Ulster is bounded
on the E and N by the sea, W by
Londonderry and Lough
Neagh, and S by Down.
In it is situated an amazing geographical
feature called the Giant’s
Causeway, consisting of lofty
pillars of basalts, all of angular shapes.
Antrim (Self Catering, Antrim,
Ireland) was affected by the
Industrial Revolution and it became a county
of linen production. Bushmill’s whiskey
distillery in Antrim
is
the
world’s oldest legal distillery. It sends
five members to parliament. The principal
rivers are the Bann and Lagan.
In the period before the 17th century, when
the county was part of the territory of the
O’Neills, there was
much migration from Scotland.
The process accelerated after 1600, with the
collapse of the old Irish aristocracy, and in
addition to the Scots, many English settlers
were given confiscated land.
The Common surnames in Antrim (Self Catering, Antrim, Ireland) are Smith, Johnston, Thompson, Wilson, Campbell, Hamilton, Stewart, Robinson, Bell, Brown, McDonnell, McCracken and Boyd. The main towns of Antrim (Self Catering, Antrim, Ireland) are Belfast, Carrickfergus, Antrim, Lisburn, Ballymena, and Ballymoney.
Unlike other parts
of Ireland,
this area has a tradition of emigration, in
the main to North America,
which stretches back to the 17th century.
This steady stream of Ulstermen and women
were largely Presbyterians.
Emigration on a large scale became
commonplace in the first half of the 18th
century. The decade of the Great Famine added
impetus to this hemorrhage and again
Belfast was the focal
point and North
America was the
destination. However, Britain
and Australia also
received emigrants in greater numbers.
The
Ulster Historical Foundation
is designated by the Irish
Family History Foundation to provide a
genealogical research service for the
counties of Antrim (Self
Catering, Antrim, Ireland)
and Down
(including the City of Belfast)
in Northern Ireland.
The Ulster Historical
Foundation offers a full
service to enquirers. In addition to having
access to civil records of birth, death and
marriages, valuation and tithe records, the
Ulster Historical Foundation is in the
process of computerising the following church
records:
Roman Catholic
records commencing in 1798
Church of Ireland records commencing in 1637
Presbyterian records from 1675 and
Non-Subscribing Presbyterian records from 1757
In all a total of 1.5 million records relating to the area have been computerised at the Centre and the computerisation of records continues. The Centre also has access to all records held at the Public Records Office of Northern Ireland.