Where is Boneybefore?

Boneybefore is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.7233°, -5.7822°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Boneybefore

Boneybefore in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Breakwater at the southern end of the Kilroot coal terminal - geograph.org.uk - 3714901 — Eric Jones — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Boneybefore is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Boneybefore ( BON-ee-bi-for) is a village near Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies between the A2 road and Belfast Lough. It is home to the Andrew Jackson Centre (also known as the Andrew Jackson Cottage), the ancestral home of Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States.

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History

In some historical references the name of the village was originally Bonnybefore and given the English name of Fair Prospect before being changed to Boneybefore to reflect the local Ulster pronunciation of the name. It is also claimed that the name came from a French commander who landed in Boneybefore prior to the Battle of Carrickfergus and is alleged to have said: "A niver seen sich a bonny place before". Though Boneybefore was not formally recognised as a village until the 1820s, in 1829 there were twenty-one houses in the area of Boneybefore, including twelve identical cottages used as farmhouses.

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