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Portrush, market and seaport town with ry. sta., Rallywillin par., N. co. Antrim, 6 miles N. of Coleraine, pop. 1322; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Market-day, Wednesday. Portrush is resorted to for bathing, and is visited by tourists on their way to the Giant's Causeway (7 miles E.), to the neighbourhood of which an electric tramway extends from Portrush. Large quantities of salmon are shipped here for Liverpool and Glasgow.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "market and seaport town" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Antrim County |
| Place: | Portrush |
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