The County Antrim War Memorial, Knockagh Road, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim

A monumental war memorial, erected c. 1935 and prominently located on an elevated site on the eastern perimeter of Knockagh Hill, overlooking Belfast Lough. The monument is approximately 50ft high, and constructed of reconstituted stone blocks. It comprises a rusticated rectangular pedestal with chamfered plinth and simple cast concrete cornice supporting an obelisk on a blocking course, all set on a platform consisting of three shallow concrete steps contained within a grassed enclosure. The south face of the pedestal contains a rendered panel inscribed: “To the Glory of God / and in proud / and affectionate remembrance / of the men / of County Antrim / who fell in the Great War / this memorial / is erected by their / grateful county. / ‘Nobly you fought your knightly virtue proved / your memory hallowed in the land you loved’. The obelisk has an applied painted metal wreath enclosing the dates 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. There is an additional polished granite plaque dated 2006 located to the chamfer of the pedestal plinth, at south. The site terminates a long public access road, and is accessed from a tarmac parking area by a cast-iron gate set in squared rubble stone boundary wall with soldier coping. Expansive views over Carrickfergus and Newtownabbey districts, to Belfast at south, and out to sea. Roof: N/A Walling: Reconstituted stone