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Rathcoole (from Irish Ráth Cúile 'corner/nook of the ringfort or Fort of Coole') [1] is a housing estate in Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was built in the 1950s to house many of those displaced by the demolition of inner city housing in Belfast city. Rathcoole is within the wider Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough.
Monkstown is said to be the burial place of Fergus Mor Mac Eirc, king of Dal Riata. [7] which suggests a religious house was established in the 5th century CE. It possibly became a grange- a farm that was managed by a monastery, and was possibly associated with the monastery at Woodburn in Carrickfergus.
Warter Priory is an 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) country estate in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire Wolds, centred 1 mile (2 km) south-west of the village of Warter and 3 miles (5 km) east of Pocklington. The estate had a country house from the 17th century until its demolition in 1972.
Belfast ends and Newtownabbey begins on the Shore Road an area which used to be the village of Whitehouse. Rathcoole, a large loyalist estate, is located in this area as is the smaller Merville Garden Village. This area includes the Abbey Centre and a number of other adjacent retails parks, making it the main shopping area of Newtownabbey. [26]
Newtownabbey Urban District was founded on 1 April 1958 to cover seven villages north of Belfast: Carnmoney, Glengormley, Jordanstown, Monkstown, Whiteabbey, Whitehouse and Whitewell. [2] Before this, the area fell under the jurisdiction of Belfast Rural District.
Whitley Beaumont was an estate near Huddersfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Northern England. Whitley Hall (now demolished) was the seat of the Beaumont family. Part of the former estate is now used as a Scout campsite.
The estate also hosts the much newer Meanwood Valley Urban Farm. A network of woodland and field footpaths connect the estate to Potternewton Lane, Buslingthorpe Lane and Woodhouse Ridge. In 2000, a further estate of residential houses was built on the opposite side of Meanwood Road, centred around Boothroyd Drive.
The following is a list of the monastic houses in West Yorkshire, England. Alien houses are included, as are smaller establishments such as cells and notable monastic granges (particularly those with resident monks), and also camerae of the military orders of monks ( Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller ).