Carrickfergus, NIR - Postcode - BT38 9XA

Description of Carrickfergus

The Irish name for the city is Carraig Fhearghais  and it literally translates to "Fergus' rock." Today, Carrickfergus is one of the largest urban centers in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It's located 11 miles (18 km) outside of Belfast, on the north side of Belfast Lough. According to the most recent census (2011), the population of the municipality was 27,998. Located in the heart of County Antrim, it is also one of the oldest settlements in all of Ireland. Carrickfergus Castle, commissioned by Anglo-Norman knight John de Courcy in the late 12th century, served as the seat of power for the Earldom of Ulster. There was no further English settlement in Ulster for the next 400 years after the earldom fell. When the Carrickfergus Borough Council and the Mid and East Antrim District Council merged in 2015, Carrickfergus became a part of the Belfast Metropolitan Area. There are a total of 65 acres in this townland, plus a civil parish and a barony. I wish I was at Carrickfergus is the opening line of the traditional Irish folk song "Carrickfergus," which was originally written in the Munster dialect of Irish (Do Bh Bean Uasal) and translated into English in the 19th century.

The Gaelic poet Alasdair mac Mhaighstir of Scotland From Loch Eynort on South Uist to Carrickfergus, Alasdair narrates the journey of a Highland war galley in his immram poem Birlinn Chloinne Raghnaill ("The Birlinn of Clanranald"). Alan Riach, the man responsible for the English translation of the poem, has lauded the 18th-century poet for his brilliance in depicting a story of men against the sea in the style of Homer and Virgil. Riach has claimed that The Birlinn of Clanranald is not only "one of the great poems in global literature," but also "an everlasting work of Scottish Gaelic language."

Baron Carrickfergus, a title in the British peerage that had been extinct since 1883, was bestowed upon Prince William on the occasion of his wedding in 2011.

History of Carrickfergus

The town flourished as a major textile hub in the 1970s. Initially, the Kilroot area was home to an ICI man-made fibers industry, but later, Rothman's cigarettes moved there. Up until the 1980s, the area was home to a huge rayon plant run by Courtaulds.

Opening in 1981, Kilroot is Northern Ireland's largest power plant to date.

Alison Balsom, Alfie Boe, and Ulster conductor Kenneth Montgomery performed during the Last Night at the Proms on September 8, 2007 in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland.

Atlantic Projects Company ("APC"), a wholly owned subsidiary of Argan (or the "Company"), has engaged into an engineering and construction services contract with EPUKI London, UK, to build a 2 x 330 MW natural gas-fired power station in Carrickfergus, Belfast, Northern Ireland, as of October 2021. Siemens Energy, using SGT5-4000F gas turbines, will supply the power trains. EPNI Energy Limited is responsible for the construction of the project. We have gotten a notice to continue and have begun working on several aspects of the project. As a whole, we anticipate the project to wrap up in the second half of 2023.