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Northern Ireland

  • County Antrim
    County Antrim
    County Antrim is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after the town of Antrim ....

    , one of the counties of Northern Ireland
  • Antrim, County Antrim
    Antrim, County Antrim
    Antrim is a town in County Antrim in the northeast of Northern Ireland, on the banks of the Six Mile Water, half a mile north-east of Lough Neagh. It had a population of 20,001 people in the 2001 Census. The town is the administrative centre of Antrim Borough Council...

    , the town
  • Antrim railway station
    Antrim railway station
    Antrim railway station serves Antrim in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.Antrim station was opened on 11 April 1848, and was closed for goods traffic on 4 January 1965...

    , serving the town of Antrim
  • Antrim Borough Council
    Antrim Borough Council
    Antrim Borough Council is a district council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It covers an area of some with a population of nearly 50,000 and is situated about north-west of Belfast...

    , an administrative division
  • Antrim GAA
    Antrim GAA
    The Antrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Antrim GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Antrim. The county board is also responsible for the Antrim inter-county teams-History:Antrim staged the first hurling match...

    , the gaelic football, hurling or any other sporting teams fielded by the Antrim County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association
  • Former constituencies:
    • Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)
      Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)
      Antrim is former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland. It was a two member constituency and existed in two periods, 1801-1885 and 1922-1950.-Boundaries:...

    • Antrim (Dáil Éireann constituency)
    • Antrim County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
    • Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
      Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
      Antrim was a county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1921 - 1929. It returned seven MPs, using the single transferable vote method of proportional representation.-Boundaries:...

    • Antrim Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
    • Antrim Borough (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
      Antrim Borough (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)
      Antrim, sometimes known as Antrim Borough to distinguish it from the former constituency of the same name, was a single-member county constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.-Boundaries and boundary changes:...


Places in the United States

  • Antrim, Louisiana
  • Antrim (Taneytown, Maryland)
    Antrim (Taneytown, Maryland)
    Antrim is a historic home located on the edge of Taneytown, Carroll County, Maryland, United States. It is a two and a half story Greek Revival style brick masonry house constructed in 1844...

    , listed on the NRHP in Maryland
  • Antrim, Michigan
  • Antrim, New Hampshire
    Antrim, New Hampshire
    Antrim is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,449 at the 2000 census. The primary settlement in the town, where over 56% of the population resides, is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Antrim census-designated place and is located at the...

  • Antrim, New York
  • Antrim, Ohio
  • Antrim, Pennsylvania, in Tioga County
  • Antrim County, Michigan
    Antrim County, Michigan
    Antrim County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the population was 23,110. The county seat is Bellaire. The name is taken from County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Antrim was originally named Meegisee , which was the name of a Chippewa chief who signed the 1821...

  • Antrim Township, Michigan
    Antrim Township, Michigan
    Antrim Township is a civil township of Shiawassee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the township population was 2,050.It was named after the town and county of Antrim in Ireland.-Communities:...

  • Antrim Township, Watonwan County, Minnesota
  • Antrim Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania
  • Antrim Township, Wyandot County, Ohio
    Antrim Township, Wyandot County, Ohio
    Antrim Township is one of the thirteen townships of Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,275 people in the township, 736 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township.-Geography:...


Places in Canada

  • Antrim, Nova Scotia
    Antrim, Nova Scotia
    Antrim is a community in the Northwestern part of the Halifax Regional Municipality in the Musquodoboit Valley on the Antrim Road off Route 212....

  • Antrim Truck Stop, Ontario 

People

  • Richard Antrim
    Richard Antrim
    Richard Nott Antrim was a U.S. Navy officer who was awarded the United States' highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his actions as a prisoner of war during World War II...

    , (1907-1969) a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy
  • "Henry Antrim", an alias used by Henry McCarty, better known as Billy the Kid
    Billy the Kid
    Henry McCarty , better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William H. Bonney, was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunman who participated in the so-called Lincoln County War...

    , a 19th century outlaw

Ships

  • USS Antrim (FFG-20)
    USS Antrim (FFG-20)
    USS Antrim was the twelfth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates. She was named for Rear Admiral Richard Nott Antrim...

    , named after Richard Antrim
  • HMS Antrim
    HMS Antrim
    Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Antrim, after County Antrim in Northern Ireland:* The first Antrim was a Devonshire-class armoured cruiser launched in 1903. She served in World War I and was broken up in 1923....

    , two ships of the Royal Navy, named after County Antrim