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BALLYMENA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 283 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALLYMENA , a See also:

town of Co. See also:Antrim, See also:Ireland, in the See also:mid See also:parliamentary See also:division, on the See also:Braid, an affluent of the See also:Maine, 2 M. above their junction. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (,co,) 10,886. It is 33 M. N.N.W. of See also:Belfast on the See also:Northern Counties (Midland) railway. See also:Branch lines run to Larne and to Parkmore on the See also:east See also:coast. The town owes its prosperity chiefly to its See also:linen See also:trade, introduced in 1733, which gives employment to the greater See also:part of the inhabitants. See also:Brown linen is a specialty. See also:Iron ore is raised in the neighbourhood. Antiquities in the See also:neighbour-See also:hood are few and the See also:present buildings of Ballymena See also:Castle and Galgorm Castle are See also:modern. Gracehill, however, a Moravian See also:settlement, was founded in 1746.

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