•  Ards, County Down

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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Ards like this:

Ards, Lower and Upper, 2 bars., co. Down, occupying the whole peninsula which extends between Lough Strangford and the Irish Sea, 38,454 ac., pop. 21,598; and 29,705 ac., pop. 10,980.

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