Ballyharry

Ballyharry
Irish: *Baile h-Araidh*
Ballyharry Irish: Baile h-Araidh;
	Ballyharry Location within Northern Ireland
County	County Antrim;
Country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Postcode district	BT40
Dialling code	028
	List of places UK Northern Ireland Antrim 54°48′23.706″N 5°43′14.851″W / 54.80658500°N 5.72079194°W

Ballyharry (/ˌbæliˈhæri/ BAL-ee-HARR-ee;^{[citation needed]} from Irish Baile h-Araidh, meaning 'town of the charioteer')^[1] is a townland of 224 acres and an area of archaeological sites on Islandmagee, in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where a number of well-preserved Neolithic house sites have been investigated.^[2] The townland is situated in the civil parish of Islandmagee and the historic barony of Belfast Lower.^[3]

1996 and 2003 investigations[edit]

^ "Ballyharry". Place Names NI. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
^ "Investigations at Ballyharry Farm, Ballyharry, County Antrim" (PDF). Centre for Archaeological Fieldwork. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2009.
^ "Ballyharry". IreAtlas Townlands Database. Retrieved 4 May 2015.