Kilroot
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![Kilroot power station, as viewed from the end of its only publicly accessible jetty.](/Images/godic/202501/22/Kilroot_Power_Station_from_Jetty0940.jpg")
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Kilroot (fromIrish Cill Ruaidh, meaning "church of the redhead") is a townland, population centre and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies to the east of Eden, on the outskirts of Carrickfergus on the northern shore of Belfast Lough. It is within the Carrickfergus Borough Council area.