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Solar, County Antrim

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Solar
Solar is located in Northern Ireland
Solar
Solar
Location within Northern Ireland
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLARNE
Postcode districtBT40
Dialling code028
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Northern Ireland
Antrim
54°53′38″N 5°52′44″W / 54.894°N 5.879°W / 54.894; -5.879

Solar (from Irish Saileachar, meaning 'willow-tree place')[1] is a townland of 42 acres in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the civil parish of Carncastle and the historic barony of Glenarm Upper.[2]

Archaeology

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The sites of a church and graveyard in the townland are registered as Scheduled Historic Monuments at grid ref: D3440 1220 [3] and an Early Christian cemetery was excavated in 1993. This revealed over 120 burials dated from the 7th to 12th centuries. Some burials had been disturbed by a stone-lined pit of Anglo-Norman date.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Solar, County Antrim". placenamesni.org. Retrieved 22 November 2021.
  2. ^ "Solar". IreAtlas Townlands Database. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  3. ^ "Solar" (PDF). Scheduled Historic Monuments (2015). Northern Ireland Environment Agency. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  4. ^ "The excavation of an Early Christian cemetery at Solar, County Antrim, 1993". British and Irish archaeological bibliography. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
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