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High Sheriff of Carrickfergus

The Sheriff of Carrickfergus was the high sheriff in the county of the town of Carrickfergus until the county was abolished under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.

List of sheriffs and high sheriffs
Source: • 1568–1569 John Teade and Nicholas Wilis • 1569–1570 Nicholas Rogers and John Flude • 1570–1571 Wolston Elderton and Cornell O'Kane • 1571–1572 William Dobbin and Patrick Savadge, jnr • 1572–1573 Wolston Elderton and John Dyer • 1573–1574 Gregory Grafton and William Field, snr • 1574–1575 Humphrey Potts and John Cockrill • 1575–1576 John Cockrill and John Dishford • 1576–1577 John Dyer and John Dishford • 1577–1578 Robert Magye and Robert Warcope • 1578–1579 Humphrey Johnston and Mychaell Savadge • 1579–1580 Barnabic Ward and Thomas Stephenson • 1580–1581 Humphrey Johnston and John Dyer • 1581–1582 John Savadge and Phellimy Magye • 1582–1583 John Dishford and James Dobbin • 1583–1584 John Dyer and Rychard Thomas • 1584–1585 Mathew Jones and John Scully • 1585–1586 John Dishford and Mychael Savadge • 1586–1587 Humphrey Johnston and John Scully • 1587–1588 John Dyer and James Dobbin • 1588–1589 Thomas Vaughan and John Lugg • 1589–1590 James Dobbin and Roger Cooper • 1590–1591 William Savadge and Henrie Ockforde (John Dyer deputy) • 1591–1592 Moyses Hill and Roger Cooper • 1592–1593 Alexander Haynes and James Dobbin • 1593–1594 John Hooper and James Rice • 1594–1595 Robert Wills died, succeeded by John Dyer; and Richard Thomas • 1595–1596 Roger Cooper and Rychard Conlon • 1596–1597 Thomas Vaughan and Thomas Wytter • 1597–1598 Rychard Thomas died, succeeded by Henry Ockford; and Thomas Gravott • 1598–1599 Rychard Newton and Owen Magye • 1599–1600 Henrie Spearpointe and Sydney Russel • 1600–1601 Rychard Newton and Rychard Faythe • 1601–1602 Rychard Newton and Rychard Faythe • 1602–1603 Mychaell Whyte; and Ralph Storie died, succeeded by Thomas Gravott • 1603–1604 Dudley Yearworth and Robert Lyndon • 1604–1605 Thomas Wytter and Clement Foard • 1605–1606 Thomas M'Manus and Thomas Cooper • 1606–1607 Owen Magye and Leonard Gale • 1607–1608 Nicholas Dobbin and Dermot Haynes • 1608–1609 Robert Elice and Walter Hilman • 1609–1610 Jasper Happer and Thomas Powell • 1610–1611 Bartholomewe Johnston and Rychard Wytter • 1611–1612 William Hurley and Edward Hodgsone • 1612–1613 Thomas Bashford and Ezechiel Davis • 1613–1614 William Dobbin dismissed, succeeded by Carew Hart; and William Stephenson • 1614–1615 Clement Foard and Anthony Dobbin • 1615–1616 Thomas M'Manus and Thomas Papes • 1616–1617 William Hurley and Thomas Kirkpatrick • 1617–1618 Matthewe Johnston and John Redworth • 1618–1619 Nicholas Dobbin and Cornell O'Kane • 1619–1620 Edward Wilkinson and Edward Hodgsone • 1620–1621 Inghram Horsman and Cornell O'Kane • 1621–1622 James Savadge died, and William Story • 1622–1623 Robert Savadge and John Davis • 1623–1624 Rychard Spearpoynte and William Cloughe • 1624–1625 Marmaduke Newton (I) • 1688–1689 Richard Horsman and Marmaduke Newton (II) • 1860 — Thomas Battersby • 1861 — James Alexander • 1862 — Andrew Forsythe • 1863 — John Borthwick • 1864 — William M'Gee, M.D. • 1865 — Snowden Corken • 1866 — Samuel Greame Fenton • 1867 — W. D. Duncan Wilson • 1858 — William Rowan Legg • 1869 — James Mehan • 1870 — Alexander Johns • 1871 — Thomas Greer • 1872 — Austin Cornwall • 1873 — Alexander Taylor • 1875 — Frances Elcocke Massey • 1876 — George M'Auliffe, J.P. • 1877 — Robert Alexander, J.P. • 1878 — John Campbell • 1879 — William John Nicholl, J.P. • 1880 — Wm. Allan Woodside, J.P. • 1881 — Charles A. W. Stewart • 1882 — James Taylor Reid, J.P. • 1883 — George Edmonstone Kirk • 1884 — William Bell, J.P. • 1885 — Pardo A. Kirk • 1886 — John Shaw Exham, J.P. • 1887 — Robert MacMurray, J.P. • 1888 — Alfred J. A. Lepper, J.P. • 1889 — James Napier Hamilton • 1890 — John M'Ferran • 1891 — William Porter, J.P. • 1892 — Edward W. Keegan • 1893 — Colonel James Craig, J.P. • 1894 — John Barbour Pirrie • 1895 — David Woodside • 1896 — John Wilson • 1897 — John Wilson, J.P. (carried over; Captain Conway Higginson was elected but refused to serve, for which he was fined £5) • 1898 — Robert Kelly, J.P. • 1899 — Charles James Johnstone ==References==
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