Genealogy In Antrim
County Antrim is one of the nine counties of Ulster. Antrim (Self Catering, Antrim, Ireland), a county of Ireland, in the province of Ulster is bounded on the E and N by the sea, W by Londonderry and Lough Neagh, and S by Down. In it is situated an amazing geographical feature called the Giant’s Causeway, consisting of lofty pillars of basalts, all of angular shapes. Antrim (Self Catering, Antrim, Ireland) was affected by the Industrial Revolution and it became a county of linen production. Bushmill’s whiskey distillery in Antrim is 
the world’s oldest legal distillery. It sends five members to parliament. The principal rivers are the Bann and Lagan. In the period before the 17th century, when the county was part of the territory of the O’Neills, there was much migration from Scotland. The process accelerated after 1600, with the collapse of the old Irish aristocracy, and in addition to the Scots, many English settlers were given confiscated land.
