Solar, County Antrim

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54°53′38″N5°52′44″W / 54.894°N 5.879°W / 54.894; -5.879 Coordinates: 54°53′38″N5°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]

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Archaeology

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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References

  1. "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.