Muckamore
Townland and village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Muckamore (Irish: Maigh Chomair) is a townland and village on the outskirts of Antrim in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.[1] It is located in the civil parish of the Grange of Muckamore in the barony of Massereene Lower.[2]
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It is the location of Muckamore Abbey Hospital and the disused Muckamore railway station. Muckamore Cricket Club is named after the village. Muckamore Forest is nearby.[3]
History
Muckamore Priory was an Augustinian priory which dates back to at least 1283, and was itself built on the site of an earlier church building.[4] Only buried ruins of the original priory remain, which were examined during excavations in 1973.[5] A further survey was made in 2011.[6]
A document in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland hypothesizes that the name may have derived from the Irish muck airi mor, for "great field of adoration".[6]
In 1861, the townland of Muckamore was described as having ten subdivisions, known as "towns".[7] As of 1831, it had a recorded population of 1,479.[8]
