Glenarm Castle

Glenarm Castle, Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, is the ancestral home of the Earl of Antrim.

Photo: GlenarmCastle, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include HMS Thrush.

HMS Thrush

Disaster remains

Photo: William Frederick Mitchell, Public domain.

HMS Thrush was a Redbreast-class composite gunboat, the third ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy. HMS Thrush is situated 1½ miles east of Glenarm Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenarm and Carnlough.

Glenarm

Village

Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glenarm is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies on the North Channel coast north of the town of Larne and the village of Ballygalley, and south of the village of Carnlough.

Carnlough

Village

Photo: Ian W Scroggy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Carnlough is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is situated in Mid and East Antrim district, as well the historic barony of Glenarm Lower, and the civil parishes of Ardclinis and Tickmacrevan. Carnlough is situated 2½ miles northwest of Glenarm Castle.

Ballygally

Village

Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ballygally or Ballygalley is a village and holiday resort in County Antrim, Northern Ireland which lies on the Antrim coast, approximately 3 miles north of Larne. Ballygally is situated 6 miles southeast of Glenarm Castle.

Glenarm Castle

Type: Castle
Description: country house in Glenarm, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Categories: country house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.96618° or 54° 57′ 58″ north

Longitude

-5.95608° or 5° 57′ 22″ west

Elevation

226 feet (69 metres)

Open location code

9C6PX28V+FH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 194487381

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=castle

GeoNames ID

2648534

Wikidata ID

Q617342

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Satellite Map

Discover Glenarm Castle from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Glenarm Castle” goes by many names.

Basque: “Glenarm gaztelua”
French: “château de Glenarm”
French: “Château de Glenarm”
German: “Glenarm Castle”
Italian: “Castello di Glenarm”
Japanese: “グレナーム城”
Spanish: “Castillo de Glenarm”
Turkish: “Glenarm Kalesi”
Ukrainian: “Замок Гленарм”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Galdanagh and Aughagash.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Glenarm Town Hall and St Patricks ((C of I) parish church.

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