Ballyclare
Ballyclare
(
Bealach Clir
in
Irish
) is a small town in the
Six Mile Valley
,
County Antrim
,
Northern Ireland
. People have lived here for five thousand years. Invaders included
Vikings
and
Normans
. At the same time as the
Pilgrim Fathers
landed in America it was finally settled by Scots planters.
Jonathan Swift
preached here and it was from here the families of
Mark Twain
,
Sam Houston
and General
Alexander Macomb
left for America. Archibald McIlroy's novel "When Lint Was In The Bell" is a light-hearted, lightly fictionalized chronicle of life in 19th-century Ballyclare.
See also:
List of towns in Northern Ireland
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