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{{short description|Village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
|official_name= Ballycarry
|irish_name= Baile Cora <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/135716 |title=Baile Cora/Ballycarry |last= |first= |date= |website=Placenames Database of Ireland |publisher=Placenames Commission |access-date=October 17, 2024 |quote=}}</ref>
|scots_name= Ballycarrie<ref>[http://www.northsouthministerialcouncil.org/nsmc_annual_report_-_ulster-scots_version_(pdf_234mb).pdf North-South Ministerial Council: 2005 Annual Report in Ulster Scots] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222171954/http://www.northsouthministerialcouncil.org/nsmc_annual_report_-_ulster-scots_version_%28pdf_234mb%29.pdf |date=2011-12-22 }}</ref>
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| population = 981
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|unitary_northern_ireland=[[Mid and East Antrim Borough Council|Mid and East Antrim]]
|lieutenancy_northern_ireland=[[County Antrim]]
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|constituency_ni_assembly=[[East Antrim (Assembly constituency)|East Antrim]]
|country= Northern Ireland
|historic_county=
|post_town= CARRICKFERGUS
|postcode_area= BT
|postcode_district= BT38
|dial_code= 028
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'''Ballycarry''' ({{Irish derived place name|Baile
==Archaeology==
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== Notable people ==
{{See also|Category:People from Ballycarry}}
*[[James Orr (poet)|James Orr]], known as the Bard of Ballycarry, was the foremost of the Ulster [[Weaver Poets]], and was writing contemporaneously with [[Robert Burns]]. He was one of many Ulster Presbyterians who fled to America after taking part in the ill-fated United Irish Rising in 1798. He returned to Ballycarry under an amnesty and died in the village in 1816. An imposing monument to Orr, erected by local Freemasons in 1831, is sited in the adjacent Templecorran cemetery. In 2011 a tourist trail, the Weaver's Trail, was officially launched in Orr's honour by the Mayor of Larne, Cllr. Bobby McKee MBE, and was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.<ref>Ballycarry - Co Antrim - Home of Poet James Orr http://www.weavers-trail.co.uk/poems-of-orr-passengers {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029192420/http://www.weavers-trail.co.uk/poems-of-orr-passengers |date=29 October 2013 }}</ref>
*Rev. [[Edward Brice]], the first Presbyterian minister in Ireland, came to Ballycarry in 1613 and ministered in the Templecorran Church, now in ruins. He was originally from Stirlingshire in Scotland and was brought to the village by William Edmondstone, who settled there in 1609. Brice was one of several Scottish clergymen who were forbidden to preach by the Established Church authorities in the 1630s.
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