Carrickfergus history quiz

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Test your knowledge of Carrickfergus with our engaging history quiz! Discover fascinating facts about this historic town while answering questions about notable events, landmarks, and personalities from years gone by.

Whether you're a local historian or just curious about Carrickfergus, this quiz is for you! Here’s what you can expect:

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1. Bell’s shop c.1910. Bell’s Newsagents is still going strong on Carrickfergus High Street today. The Bells were also printers and the first publishers of the Carrickfergus Advertiser when it was established in what year?

1883

1923

1953

1983

2. The Town Hall and Museum & Civic Centre are built on the site of a Franciscan Friary established c.1232 (close up, 1567 map of Carrickfergus. Map ref: TCD, MS 1209(26)). Which of these have NOT been discovered during excavations of the site?

Viking axe

Painted window glass

Human skeletons

Monkey skeleton

3. More than two centuries after the Friary was dissolved, Carrickfergus gaol, opened on the same site in 1779. When the gaol finally closed its doors in 1850 where were the remaining prisoners sent?

Tasmania, Australia

Crumlin Road gaol, Belfast

Kilmainham gaol, Dublin

Spike Island, Cork

4. This is the old market house, built 1755. It was also the Town Hall until 1934. What business is located here today?

Ulster Bank

Wetherspoon

Lauryn James

Boots

5. Which famous author of Gulliver’s Travels attended the Mayor’s feast during his years’ stay at Kilroot in 1695?

Daniel Defoe

Alexander Pope

Jonathan Swift

John Milton

6. These gallows stood off the Belfast Road on the way into the town. The United Irishman William Orr, met his end here in 1797. What were the gallows known as?

The three sisters

The three brothers

The trio of death

The trio of sisters

7. Most of us don’t have a family memorial as grand as this one for Sir Arthur Chichester in St Nicholas’ Parish Church, Carrickfergus! Which of these things did Chichester NOT do?

Establish the town of Belfast

Establish the town of Carrickfergus

Build Carrickfergus town walls

Command a ship against the Spanish Armada in 1588

9. This ‘big house’ was built around 1800 and was sold at auction in 2013 – with a reserve price of £100K. Which is it?

Scoutbush

Seapark

Glynn Park

Rosganna

10. The American Revolution touched our shores when John Paul Jones, known as the father of the US Navy, defeated the British ship HMS Drake off the coast of Carrickfergus. What was Jones’s ship called – a name now associated with a famous regiment formed in Carrickfergus during WWII?

USS Providence

USS Bonhomme Richard

USS Ranger

USS Enterprise

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