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When John de
Courcey invaded Ulster with his Norman army in 1177
he built a castle at Carrickfergus and later
established a series of defensive outposts along
the Ollar River. Soldiers riding from Carrick to
Antrim reached the river where Ballyclare now
stands and judged they had travelled six miles.
They came to call it the Six Mile Water. This motte
in the park in Ballyclare would have had a wooden
pallisade around the top and would have been manned
by a company of soldiers
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