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| | Kilroot or Kilroi Parish, Co. Antrim, Ireland, ©Jane Lyons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | KILROOT, or KILROI, a parish, In the barony of LOWER BELFAST, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, 2½ miles (E. N, E.) from Carrickfergus, on the road to Larne ; containing 536 inhabitants. |
 | | At Kilroot Point, the French general Thurot, with three ships and 600 men, landed in 1760 and attacked Carrickfergus, which being at the time un-provided with a regular garrison, was obliged to capitulate. |
 | | to the rectory of Ballynure and the vicarage of Templecorran, together forming the union and corps of the prebend of Kilroot in the cathedral of Connor, and in the patronage of the Bishop ; the rectory is impropriety in the Marquess of Donegal. |
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