North Down Museum
North Down Museum is in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. North Down Museum is situated nearby to Bangor Town Museum, as well as near the town hall Bangor Castle.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bangor Bus and Rail Centre and Bangor Abbey.
Bangor Bus and Rail Centre
Railway station
Photo: Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bangor Bus and Rail Centre is a combined rail and bus interchange which serves the city of Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. The station in its current form was built in the year 2000 to celebrate the new millennium. Bangor Bus and Rail Centre is situated 1,200 feet northwest of North Down Museum.
Bangor Abbey
Church
Photo: Andrew Muir, CC BY 2.0.
Bangor Abbey was established by Saint Comgall in 558 in Bangor, County Down, Ireland and was famous for its learning and austere rule. It is not to be confused with the slightly older abbey in Wales on the site of Bangor Cathedral. Bangor Abbey is situated 1,300 feet west of North Down Museum.
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College
School
Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College is an 11–18 co-educational, secondary school and sixth form in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school dates from 2001 when the non-selective Bangor Girls High School and the non-selective Gransha Boys' High school merged. Bangor Academy and Sixth Form College is situated 1,000 feet northeast of North Down Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bangor and Kilcooley estate.
Bangor
Photo: P.khiao, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bangor is a town on the south shore of Belfast Lough, in County Down. It was a holiday resort from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century but is now chiefly a commuter town for Belfast. In 2021 it had a population of 64,000.
Kilcooley estate
Suburb
Kilcooley estate is a housing estate owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on the outskirts of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The residents of the area are predominantly Protestant, and the area has strong links with loyalism.
Newtownards
Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newtownards is a town at the head of Strangford Lough, historically in County Down, with a population in 2021 of 29,600. The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer units of governance so since 2015 the town has been part of Ards and North Down "super-district".
North Down Museum
- Type: Sign
- Categories: information and tourism
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.6559° or 54° 39′ 21″ northLongitude
-5.66873° or 5° 40′ 7″ westOpen location code
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