Searching for "COPELAND ISLANDS"

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  • If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "COPELAND ISLANDS":
    Place name County Entry Source
    Ballycopeland Down Ballycopeland , townland, 2 miles N. of Donaghadee, NE. co. Down, opposite the Copeland Islands. Bartholomew
    BANGOR Down Copeland islands, including which it comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 17,027 statute acres, of which 12,597 ¼are in the barony Lewis:Ireland
    CARRICKFERGUS Antrim Copeland islands' lighthouse. It is formed by a pier extending from the old castle, in a western direction, to a distance Lewis:Ireland
    Copeland Islands Down Copeland Islands , Bangor par., N. co. Down; the largest only is inhabited, area, 295 ac., pop. 46. On Small Copeland Bartholomew
    COPELAND ISLANDS Down island is the Katikern rock, always above water, from which run two ledges about a cable's length, and on which a stone beacon has been erected. There is good anchorage on the west side of the island, and in Chapel bay on the south of Katikern, in from two to three fathoms of water, in all winds but those from the south-east. Lighthouse, or, as it is also called, Cross island, is about 1 mile (N. E.) from Copeland Lewis:Ireland
    CROSS ISLAND   CROSS ISLAND .—See COPELAND ISLANDS. Lewis:Ireland
    Down Down islands in Strangford Lough, and Copeland Island lies off the entrance to Belfast Lough. The surface on the whole is irregular Bartholomew
    DOWN Down Copeland islands, to the south of which is the town and harbour of Donaghadee, a station for the mail packets Lewis:Ireland
    Govan Lanarkshire Govan, a parish and a burgh in the lower ward of Lanarkshire, and in the extreme NW of that county Groome
    Kaddy Carne Down Kaddy Carne , a long ledge of rocks, on W. side of the largest of the Copeland islands, N. co. Down. Bartholomew
    MEW ISLAND   MEW ISLAND .—See COPELAND ISLANDS. Lewis:Ireland
    Rigg Bank Down Rigg Bank , fishing bank, W. of Copeland islands, N. co. Down. Bartholomew
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