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Ardglass Timeline |
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Dunsford Timeline |
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In the year 1002 Sitric (Sigtrygg II Silkbeard Olafsson), King of the Danes, passed through the mouth of Strangford Lough with a fleet and plundered Kilclief Church with considerable loss of life. |
1177 |
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Soon after this date, a Norman knight Roger De Dunesforthe gives his name to Dunford |
mid -1400's |
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Ardtole Church is burnt and congregation is massacred. |
1500's |
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This statue was originally associated with the earlier church situated on the site of St Mary’s Church of Ireland and is one of the last surviving pre-reformation statues. |
1700's |
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The Piping Rock where the Fairies danced. |
1730 |
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The Sheepland Windmill in Dunsford is one of the first mills to grind corn in the Lecale. |
1791 |
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Dunsford Church was built. |
1797 |
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The French ship L'Amitie wae shipwrecked on the coast of Sheepland while carrying guns and ammunition for the United Irishmen.Out of a crew of 104 men, only 1 survived. |
1820 |
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As small harbour was operating in Ballyhornan. |
1857 |
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Will's Billy Curran, The Sage of Sheepland Mor. |
1904 |
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John Gordon's forge is opened |
1929 |
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A Telegraph cable comes to Ballyhornan and connects a telphone service from the North of Ireland to America. |
1941 |
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Bishopscourt Aerodrome opens in November 1941. A future American President visits in May 1944. |
1946 |
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The Georgetown Victory runs aground off Killard Banks |