Cockle Island
Cockle Island is in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. Cockle Island is situated nearby to the village Groomsport, as well as near the locality Barnagh Bay.Places of Interest
Highlights include Ward Park and St Columbanus’ College.
Ward Park
Park
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ward Park is situated in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The 37-acre park contains 10 tennis courts, a duck pond and a selection of wildfowl housed in breeding pens.
St Columbanus’ College
School
St. Columbanus' College is a Roman Catholic secondary school situated on the Ballymaconnell Road, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bangor and Donaghadee.
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.
Donaghadee
Town
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Donaghadee is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the northeast coast of the Ards Peninsula, about 18 miles east of Belfast and about six miles south east of Bangor.
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.
Cockle Island
- Type: Coastline
- Category: landform
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.6786° or 54° 40′ 43″ northLongitude
-5.618° or 5° 37′ 5″ westOpen location code
9C6PM9HJ+CQOpenStreetMap ID
way 474645026OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
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