Well here we are on the hidden history trail this time at Carmavy, which is just off the seven mile straight which runs to Antrim Town, take the Carmavy Road on the left and drive along about 4 miles till you come to a Cemetery

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Carmavy County Antrim

Also known for many years as "The Place Of The Slaughter"

The 1641 Atrocity

This old cemetery looks so peaceful and serene, but it has known the screams of women and children, the crackling of a blazing inferno and stands on a par with Cromwell's atrocities at Drogheda, yet it has all been written out of the history books in this region of Ireland some call "Northern Ireland", it is not a case of re-writing history perhaps more a case of erasing history.

1641 saw an another wave of invading English Armies sweep across Ireland, and here in this part of Co. Antrim the local Irish Catholic women and children ran to their local Chapel, thinking they would be safe'