Glens

The Glens lordship centred on Glenarm among the valleys of the Antrim coast. The Bissetts, a Gaelicised Norman family from Scotland, became lords of the Glens in the thirteenth century.

Sir Hugh Bisset received the barony of Glenarm in 1338. In 1399 the heiress Margery Byset married John Mór MacDonnell, giving his Scottish family a claim to the Glens, which they made good by the early sixteenth century. In 1603 Sir Randal MacDonnell received the Glens and the Route from the crown, establishing the future Earls of Antrim.