Where is Route, County Antrim?

Route, County Antrim is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.9580°, -6.5060°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Route, County Antrim

Route, County Antrim in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Route, County Antrim 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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The Route (Irish: An Rúta) was a medieval territory in Gaelic Ireland, located on the north-east coast of Ulster. It stretched between Coleraine and Ballycastle and as far south as the Clogh River. Originally part of Twescard, a county of the Earldom of Ulster, it was later ruled by the McQuillans and then the MacDonnells.

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History

[[File:Map of the north of Ireland RMG F2012.tiff|thumb|A map of Ulster from c. 1600, showing the Route and "McWilly [sic] his countrey"]] The territory of the Route had been part of Twescard, a county of the Earldom of Ulster that at its height stretched from the Glens of Antrim to Inishowen. After the murder of the Earl of Ulster in 1333, the Irish chiefdoms rebelled and the Earldom of Ulster eventually collapsed. Almost all of it gradually fell under Gaelic control. By the 1460s, the de Mandevilles, who held manors in Twescard, decided to abandon them, and sold their land to the McQuillans, who according to the Annals of Ulster were already in the region warring with the O'Cahans as far…

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