Outside of the castle in Carrickfergus there is a small town center that was once surrounded by a wall as well (remnants can still be seen to this day). However, most of the attention in the town is directed to the harbor area surrounding the castle. It has become more of a fishing harbor from what I could tell, but it retains some of the cities former industrial charm as well.
Inland from the harbor there is a dual carriageway (or country road) that cordons off the castle and harbor from the town center. This happened to a number of villages in the 1960. Unfortunately that has limited the potential of the town center as a tourist draw and there is little to see. I found a number of very old grave stones in the cemetery surrounding St. Nicholas Church, however.
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| Many other grave stones were wrought iron like this one, but others were stone and some dating back into the 18th century. |
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