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 (OS map ref: J27048400) 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.

References

• NI Neighbourhood Information System
• Roughfort Motte

See also

• List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland