Roughfort

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Roughfort is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 216 people. It lies within the Newtownabbey Borough Council area.

[edit] Places of interest

• Roughfort Motte (OS map ref: J27048400) is a scheduled monument. It is a medieval mound and site of assembly in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, for the United Irishmen under the command of Henry Joy McCracken before the Battle of Antrim on 7 June 1798.

[edit] References

• NI Neighbourhood Information System
• Roughfort Motte

[edit] See also

• List of villages in Northern Ireland
• List of towns in Northern Ireland