placenamesAntiville
Excavation in 1957 recorded an early medieval dwelling and underground passage before roadworks destroyed the site.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Antiville · English · main form
Place & story
An unexpected discovery
Work on a marshy part of a golf course at Antiville revealed a souterrain, an underground stone-built passage. Excavation by D. M. Waterman in October and November 1957 linked it with a rectangular house inside a ditched enclosure. The site was subsequently destroyed by roadworks, so its archaeological record is especially important. [2]
A household rebuilt
The excavators distinguished successive phases of occupation. One house shared a wall with the souterrain passage and contained a hearth and partial stone paving. Pottery, flints and animal bones came from its floor. Later occupants covered the floor with peat and installed another hearth. Wood from vessels survived in the wet conditions of the underground structure. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Glenarm Upper
- Civil parish
- Larne
- Coordinates
- 54.85451, -5.83774
- Mapped area
- 0.72 km²
- Logainm ID
- 62579 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Antiville. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Early Medieval Dwellings and Settlements in Ireland, Vol2 Gazetteer,2010: Antiville, pages2–4 · Thomas Kerr, Lorcan Harney, Jonathan Kinsella, Aidan O’Sullivan and Finbar McCormick, EMAP
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.