Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Connor

Connor, par. and vil., mid. co. Antrim, 5 miles S. of Ballymena -- 17,140 ac., pop. 6661; vil., pop. 234. Here Edward Bruce defeated an English army in 1315. The diocese of Connor comprises nearly the whole of co. Antrim, and parts of cos. Down and Londonderry.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Antrim IrlC
Place: Connor

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