Bangor

School or library

city in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Approximate centre: 54.6600, -5.6700

What this place is

  • School or library — Comgall's monastery on Belfast Lough, where Columbanus was schooled and where the oldest surviving Irish service book was written about 680

Who is recorded here

In art

About the place

Bangor is a city in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the southern side of Belfast Lough. It is within the Belfast metropolitan area and is 13 miles (22 km) east of Belfast city centre, to which it is linked by the A2 road and the Belfast–Bangor railway line. The population was 64,596 at the 2021 census.

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