sentences:  It was owned by John Bisset who acquired lands between Larne and Ballycastle from Hugh de Lacy, the Earl of Ulster.Bisset made Glenarm his capital, and by 1260 there was a castle, which stood at the centre of the present village, with a kitchen garden, an orchard and a mill, as well as woods and meadows.The old village courthouse still incorporates some of its walls, indeed an immured skeleton was discovered there in the 1970s.