Solar | |
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Location within
Northern Ireland | |
District | |
County | |
Country | Northern Ireland |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LARNE |
Postcode district | BT40 |
Dialling code | 028 |
Police | Northern Ireland |
Fire | Northern Ireland |
Ambulance | Northern Ireland |
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]
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]