Scawt Hill is a volcanic plug in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in the borough of Larne, 5 km from the village of Ballygally.[1]
It gets its name from the Ulster Scots "scawd" meaning scaly, scabby or rugged.[2] Alternatively, 'scawt' meaning scruffy and contemptible, and when applied to rocks, covered in barnacles.[3]
ScawtHill is a volcanic plug in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in the borough of Larne, 5 km from the village of Ballygally. It gets its name from the...
plugs in Northern Ireland, including Slemish in Ballymena, Tievebulliagh, ScawtHill, Carrickarede, Scrabo and Slieve Gallion. There are several volcanic plugs...
It occurs associated with portlandite, afwillite and hydrocalumite at ScawtHill, Ireland and with afwillite, hydrocalumite, mayenite and gypsum in the...
olivine group of minerals. It was first described from an occurrence at ScawtHill, Larne, Northern Ireland in 1929 by Cecil Edgar Tilley and named for the...
1569, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, appointed Sir Moyses Hill as the governor of Olderfleet Castle. It was seen as strategically important...
name being derived from Larne, Northern Ireland, the closest town to ScawtHill where it was discovered. The belite found in Portland cement differs in...
Territories, including Queen Mary's Peak in Tristan da Cunha, Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, as well as Mount Belinda...
mayenite and ettringite. It was first described in 1933 for an occurrence at ScawtHill, Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It was named portlandite because...
flat prisms. Scawtite was first described in 1929 for an occurrence at ScawtHill in Northern Ireland. Scawtite occurs as in skarns and hydrothermal veins...
wrestler, was born and raised in the satellite village of Greenisland. Jimmy Hill (Norwich City) and Billy McCullough (Arsenal), Northern Ireland international...
Cave Hill or Cavehill is a rocky hill overlooking the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland,with a height of 368 metres (1,207 ft). It is marked by basalt...
under mill management by William Barbour in 1829. Today, Fort Hill Primary and Fort Hill College make a conscious effort to surmount principal sectarian...
still forms part of the Belfast metropolitan area. It surrounds Carnmoney Hill, and was formed from the merging of several small villages including Whiteabbey...
held inside the volcano vent, and so had time to grow larger crystals. ScawtHill, another volcanic plug 5 km west north west of Ballygally, is an internationally...
(1,670 ft), Trostan 550 m (1,800 ft), Slemish 437 m (1,430 ft), Agnew's Hill 474 m (1,560 ft) and Divis 478 m (1,570 ft). The inland slope is gradual...
Divis (/ˈdɪvɪs/; from Irish Dubhais 'black ridge') is a hill and area of sprawling moorland north-west of Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. With...
locally as the Armada Tree. Knockdhu (from Irish Cnoc Dubh, meaning 'black hill') is a Bronze Age promontory fort and settlement situated approximately one...
December 2023. An Historical Account of the Macdonnells of Antrim by George Hill, 1873, at. p. 21 Logainm.ie Archived 3 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine...
purchased a large amount of land at Suffolk and former demesne land at Seymour Hill and Conway. One third of these housing units were reserved for residents...
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