Place:Shankill, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

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NameShankill
TypeParish
Coordinates54.62616°N 5.96146°W
Located inCounty Antrim, Northern Ireland
See alsoBelfast, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Contained Places
Townland
Ballysillan
Edenderry
Legoneil
Skegoneill
Upper Malone
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Historical description

Extracts pertaining to local and historical information are taken from a Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis published in 1837.


The parish, according to the Ordnance survey, contains 19,559 statute acres, and was anciently called Shankill, but no church having existed at the latter place for more than two centuries, it is now generally designated the parish of Belfast. -- See BELFAST.

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