Portaferry
Portaferry is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,470 residents
- Description: town in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Portaferry, County Down”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Exploris and Audley’s Castle.
Exploris
Public aquarium
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Exploris is a public aquarium situated in Portaferry, Northern Ireland. The facility is the only public aquarium in Northern Ireland and it is located on the shores of the Marine Nature reserve of Strangford Lough, which is an important winter migration destination for many wading and sea birds.
Audley’s Castle
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Audley's Castle is a 15th-century castle located 1 mile north-east of Strangford, County Down, Northern Ireland, on a rocky height overlooking Strangford Lough.
Castle Ward
Castle
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castle Ward is an 18th-century National Trust property located near the village of Strangford, in County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strangford and Kilclief.
Strangford
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strangford is a village historically in County Down in Northern Ireland, now governed as part of Newry, Mourne and Down District. It's on the west bank of the narrow outlet of Strangford Lough, where the tides rip back and forth, hence to the Vikings it was Strangr-fjǫrðr, the strong fjord.
Kilclief
Hamlet
Kilclief is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic baronies of Lecale Lower and Lecale Upper. It is also a townland of 623 acres. Kilclief is situated 3 miles south of Portaferry.
Cloghy
Village
Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cloghy, also spelt Cloughy or Cloughey, is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the east coast of the Ards Peninsula, in the Ards and North Down Borough. It had a population of 1,075 people in the 2011 Census. Cloghy is situated 4½ miles northeast of Portaferry.
Portaferry
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.3807° or 54° 22′ 51″ northLongitude
-5.54855° or 5° 32′ 55″ westPopulation
2,470Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PFYOpen location code
9C6P9FJ2+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 267762902OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Portaferry” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Portaferry”
- Basque: “Portaferry”
- Bulgarian: “Портаферй”
- Cebuano: “Portaferry”
- Dutch: “Portaferry”
- French: “Portaferry”
- Irish: “Port an Pheire”
- Italian: “Portaferry”
- Japanese: “ポータフェリー”
- Malay: “Portaferry”
- Pali: “पोर्ताफेर्री”
- Persian: “پورتافری”
- Spanish: “Portaferry”
- Swedish: “Portaferry”
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