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Portaferry (in Irish: Port an Pheire, ie Landing place of the ferry) is a large village in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough. It had a population of 2,467 people in the 2001 Census. It has an aquarium and is well-known for the annual Galway Hookers Regatta. It hosts its own small Marina, the Portaferry Marina. A passenger/car ferry service operates daily at 15 minute intervals (8am to 11pm) between the villages of Portaferry and Strangford, less than a mile apart, conveying about 500,000 passengers per annum. A village is a human residential settlement commonly found in rural areas. ...
Statistics Province: Ulster County Town: Downpatrick Area: 2,448 km² Population (est. ...
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The Ards peninsula is a peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland which separates Strangford Lough from the North Channel on Irelands northeast coast. ...
View of Portaferry from the Strangford side of the lough Strangford Lough (Loch Cuan in Irish) is a lough in County Down, Northern Ireland, separated from the Irish Sea by the Ards peninsula. ...
UK Census 2001 logo A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001. ...
For other uses, see Aquarium (disambiguation). ...
The Galway Hooker is a traditional sailing boat used in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland. ...
Portaferry Marina is situated on the east shore of The Narrows, the gateway to Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland. ...
Strangford is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. ...
Commercial fishing for clams and king prawns and the farming of oysters and mussels takes place within the confines of Strangford Lough. This is supplemented by the presence in Portaferry of the Marine Laboratory of the Queen's University of Belfast. There are fine Georgian buildings in the town square, including a Market House, now used as a community centre. The Queens University of Belfast (QUB) is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the university is often called Queens University Belfast. ...
Portaferry Lifeboat is an essential lifeline for local fishermen and yachtsmen. In 1987 a lifeboat house was built aided by monies raised through the Belfast Newsletter’s Lord Louis Mountbatten Appeal Fund. In 1994 a new Atlantic 75 inshore lifeboat, also named ’Blue Peter V’, replaced the Atlantic 21. (The Atlantic 75 is the fastest sea going lifeboat in the RNLI’s fleet and is capable of speeds up to 34 Knots.) 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Places of interest
- Portaferry is the home of the Northern Ireland Aquarium - Exploris. It was opened by Ards Borough Council in 1987 and extended and re-opened by Prince Charles in 1994 as Exploris. It is Northern Ireland’s premier marine life centre and aquarium, featuring walk-through tanks which house examples of Strangford Lough’s marine inhabitants.
- Roads Service (Department for Regional Development) operates a car ferry service across Strangford Lough between the villages of Strangford and Portaferry. To travel the distance between Strangford and Portaferry by road is approximately 75 kilometres and takes about an hour and a half by car. By contrast, the ferry route is approximately 0.6 nautical miles with a typical crossing time of about 8 minutes.
- Portaferry Castle is a small 16th century Tower house built by William Le Savage. It is a square building with a small projecting turret at the south corner. It is three storeys high plus attic. There is no vault. Most of the eastern corner is ruinous.
Ards Borough Council is a Local Council in County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor; born Windsor, 14 November 1948), is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
Strangford is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland. ...
Portaferry Castle is a castle situated in Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland. ...
(15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...
A tower house stands on a hillock near Quin along the back road from Limerick to Ennis. ...
People - Portaferry’s famous sons include two brothers, the tenor Peter Tomelty and the actor and playwright Joseph Tomelty, born in Portaferry in 1911.
- Apparently actor Oliver Reed owned a holiday home in Portaferry up until his death.
- The Actor Errol Flynn was an occasional visitor to the town at one time. His Father Theodore Thomson Flynn was a Professor at Queen's University Belfast which has a Marine Biology Station in the town.
- Sportsman Karol Keating ['Mercer'], former Ulster Colleges All-star; 'Man of the Match' Down Senior Hurling Championship Final, 2006. [Barred from editing entries on this website. Penalty will be 2 laps of the park and 20 press-up's, on Boxing day; i.e. - automatic heart attack]
1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 – May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his macho image on and off screen. ...
Errol Flynn Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (June 20, 1909 – October 14, 1959) was an Australian film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films and his flamboyant lifestyle. ...
Theodore Thomson Flynn (11 October 1883 - 23 October 1968) was an Australian biologist and a professor at the Queens University of Belfast. ...
Environment The Portaferry area is popular with local and foreign tourists for its beauty, history, wildlife and other visitor attractions. Other pursuits enjoyed in the area are angling, wildfowling and birdwatching. Strangford Lough is the largest sea inlet in the British Isles. View of Portaferry from the Strangford side of the lough Strangford Lough (Loch Cuan in Irish) is a lough in County Down, Northern Ireland, separated from the Irish Sea by the Ards peninsula. ...
It is Northern Ireland's first Marine Nature Reserve and is renowned as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Special Scientific Interest, with six National Nature Reserves within its reaches. Over 2000 species of marine animals have been found in the Lough and internationally important flocks of wildfowl and wading birds converge there in winter. The Lough is also the most important site in Ireland for breeding common seals
Sport Diving is an increasingly popular pastime and approximately 70 Sub-aqua clubs currently use the area throughout the year.
The village also has 2 soccer teams and one of Ireland's top Hurling teams.
2001 Census Portaferry is classified as an intermediate settlement by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (ie with population between 2,250 and 4,500 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 2,467 people living in Portaferry. Of these: April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ...
This article is about the year 2001. ...
- 25.1% were aged under 16 years and 18.2% were aged 60 and over
- 50.4% of the population were male and 49.6% were female
- 89.1% were from a Catholic background and 9.7% were from a Protestant background
- 4.6% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed.
For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service Protestantism is one of three main groups within Christianity. ...
References
See also This is a list page for villages in Northern Ireland. ...
This is a list page for towns in Northern Ireland. ...
Market Houses are a notable feature of many Irish towns with varying styles of architecture, size and ornamentation making for a most interesting feature of the streetscape. ...
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