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Roughfort
Roughfort
is a small
village
in
County Antrim, Northern Ireland
. It is within the
townland
of
Craigarogan
and the
Newtownabbey Borough Council
area. In the
2001 Census
it had a population of
216
people
.
Places
of interest
Roughfort
Motte
is a
scheduled monument
. It is a
medieval
mound and site of
assembly
in the
Irish Rebellion of 1798
, for
the United
Irishmen
under the
command
of
Henry Joy McCracken
before the
Battle of Antrim
on
7 June
1798
.
