Reprinted from.
Lewis Topographical Directory.
of County Antrim 1837.

Glenwhirry

Samuel Lewis' County Antrim
 

GLENWHIRRY, an extra-parochial district, in the barony of LOWER ANTRIM, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, 6 miles (W. by S.) from Larne, on the road to Broughshane; containing 1358 inhabitants.

According to the Ordnance survey it comprises 11,368 1/4 statute acres. There is a meeting-house for Presbyterians in connection with the Synod of Ulster, of the third class.

About 80 children are educated in two private schools, and there is a Sunday school.