Antiville, County Antrim

Townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Human settlement in Northern Ireland

Antiville

Location within Northern Ireland

County Antrim

CountryNorthern IrelandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPolice Northern Ireland Fire Northern Ireland Ambulance Northern Ireland

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54°51′19″N 5°50′17″W / 54.855255°N 5.838121°W / 54.855255; -5.838121

Antiville (from Irish An Tigh Bhile, meaning 'The House of the Old Tree')^[1] is a townland of 165 acres in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the civil parish of Larne and the historic barony of Glenarm Upper.^[2]

Archaeology

At Antiville, in a marshy area beside a tributary of the River Larne, a rectangular house and souterrain were discovered enclosed by a shallow ditch cut through the peat with a slight bank on the inner side. Eventually this was interpreted, not as a ringfort enclosure, but a means of draining excess water from the site.^[3] Radiocarbon dates from the supposed ringfort at Antiville were 544-644 AD and 695-936 AD.^[4]

References

^ "Antiville". Place Names NI. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
^ "Antiville". IreAtlas Townlands Database. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
^ Edwards, N (1990). The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland. London: BT Batsford. p. 46.
^ Stout, Matthew (1997). The Irish Ringfort. Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 26.