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Extract from the Carrickfergus Travel Guides:
Heading past Belfast's northern suburbs, the A2 skirts the edge of Belfast Lough before reaching
CARRICKFERGUS
, an unremarkable seaside town (though with a recent reputation for Loyalist violence) whose seafront is dominated by its only real point of interest,
Carrickfergus Castle
(April-Sept Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 2-6pm; July & Aug opens at noon on Sun; Oct-March Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 2-4pm; 2.70), one of the earliest and largest of Irish castles. Built on a rocky promontory above the harbour around 1180 by the Anglo-Norman invader John de Courcy (and garrisoned until 1928), it reflects the defensive history of t...
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