Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ards, Lower and Upper

Ards, Lower and Upper, 2 bars., co. Down, occupying the whole peninsula which extends between Lough Strangford and the Irish Sea, 38,454 ac., pop. 21,598; and 29,705 ac., pop. 10,980.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "2 baronies"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Down IrlC
Place: Ards

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