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]
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Country | Northern Ireland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LARNE |
Postcode district | BT40 |
Dialling code | 028 |
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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]
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