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unusual facts about Comber, County Down



Aislín McGuckin

Aislín McGuckin is a Northern-Irish actress who was born in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland in 1974.

Allison Park, Pennsylvania

Early Irish settlers named it after Tullycavy on the Ards Peninsula outside Greyabbey, County Down, Ireland.

Ards Lower

Ards Lower (named after the former barony of Ards) is a barony in County Down, Northern Ireland.

Ballykinler

The base was used as a training centre by the Ulster Defence Regiment whose 3rd (County Down) Battalion was also based there.

Battle of Moira

The battle was fought near the Woods of Killultagh, just outside the village of Moira in what would become County Down.

Catherine Jean Milligan

Catherine Jean Milligan (born 11 September 1986, Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland) was Miss Northern Ireland 2006 and represented her country in the Miss World finals in Poland.

Charles Brett

His church memorial is located along those of his family in the Comber Church of Ireland Parish Church of St. Mary, in Comber, North County Down.

Earl Annesley

The titles of Baron Annesley, of Castlewellan in the County of Down, and Viscount Glerawly, in the County of Fermanagh, were created in the Peerage of Ireland on 20 September 1758 and 14 November 1766 respectively for his father William Annesley, who sat as Member of the Irish Parliament for Midleton.

Eddie McGrady

Born in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, one of eleven children, McGrady was educated at St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick and at Belfast Technical College, where he trained as a chartered accountant, subsequently entering his family's accountancy firm.

Edward Trevor

While on military service in Ireland, in 1612 Edward Trevor married Rose, a daughter of Henry Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and acquired an estate in County Down which was renamed Rostrevor, incorporating his own name.

Francis Rawdon Chesney

He was a son of Captain Alexander Chesney, an Irishman of Scottish descent who, having emigrated to South Carolina in 1772, served under Lord Rawdon (afterwards Marquess of Hastings) in the American War of Independence, and subsequently received an appointment as coast officer at Annalong, County Down, Ireland.

Glentoran F.C.

The club's Board of directors have suggested moving close to a town called Comber, well outside the city bounds of Belfast, which the majority of supporters firmly oppose.

Harold Frederick Comber

On completion of his studies and expeditions, Comber left Edinburgh to become head gardener for the McEacharn family at Galloway House until its sale in 1930.

Despite the occasionally extreme privations, and accompanied only by a boy guide, Comber sent back seeds and herbarium specimens of over 1200 species, including the Chilean Fire Bush, Nothofagus antarctica, and several species of Berberis and Eucryphia.

Herbert Kennedy Andrews

He was the son of Arthur Macdonald Andrews and Sarah Black, born in Comber, County Down and educated at Bedford School.

James Boughtwood Comber

On leaving school, Comber worked briefly for the seed company of Sutton & Son at Reading before beginning an apprenticeship at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in 1951.

James ('Jim') Boughtwood Comber (1929 - 7 September 2005) was born at Garlieston, Scotland, into a famous horticultural family.

John Hamilton Thom

He was a younger son of John Thom (died 1808), born on 10 January 1808 at Newry, County Down, where his father, a native of Lanarkshire, was Presbyterian minister from 1800.

John Macoun

Macoun was born in Magheralin, County Down, Ireland in 1831, the third child of James Macoun and Anne Jane Nevin.

Joseph Barcroft

Born in Newry, County Down into a Quaker family, he was the son of Henry Barcroft DL and Anna Richardson Malcomson of The Glen, Newry - a property purchased for his parents by his mother's uncle, John Grubb Richardson and adjoining his own estate in Bessbrook.

Joseph Edgar

He was born in Benraw, County Down, the son of Joseph Edgar and May McCracken, and came to Canada in 1872.

Joseph McMaster

Joseph Emile Patrick McMaster (16 March 1861 in County Down, Ireland – 7 June 1929 in London) is notable as having probably the oddest and shortest first-class cricket career of all-time.

Kevin McCourt

He was born 14 April 1915 in Tralee, County Kerry, second son among three sons and one daughter of John McCourt, originally of Banbridge, County Down, clerk with the congested districts board at Tralee, and later a distributor with Argosy Libraries, and Mary Christina McCourt (née Small) of Co.

Kirkistown Castle

Kirkistown Castle is a castle situated near Cloghy, County Down, Northern Ireland.

Mac Con Midhe

There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the river Foyle in the deanery of Derry, and they are recorded as such as late as 1606 when Bishop Montgomery's survey of the diocese was made.

Marcus Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon

Trevor was the son of Sir Edward Trevor of Rostrevor, County Down, and of Brynkinalt Hall, near Chirk in Denbighshire, by his marriage to Rose Ussher, a daughter of Henry Ussher (ca. 1550–1613), Archbishop of Armagh.

N.I.C.S. Hockey Club

Northern Ireland Civil Service Hockey Club (NICS Hockey Club) plays its hockey in the grounds of the Stormont Estate in County Down, Northern Ireland.

Paddy Daly

In the aftermath he was arrested and interned in Ballykinlar Camp in County Down.

Peter Brush

Educated at Clifton College and RMA Sandhurst, Brush spent his early teenage years at his father's citrus plantation in Canada, later returning to Drumnabreeze House, Magheralin, County Down.

Robert Desmond Meikle

Robert Desmond Meikle (born 18 May 1923 in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish botanist from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

St. Colman's Abbey Christian Brothers' Primary School

St. Colman's Abbey Christian Brothers' Primary Elementary School (Irish: Bunscoil Cholmáin na Mainistreach) is a Christian Brothers' school located in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland.

White House, County Down

The White House is a ruined 17th century dwelling house at Ballyspurge, near Cloghy, County Down, Northern Ireland on the Ards Peninsula.

WIOT

The station also experiences regular interference from Geneva, Ohio's WKKY, which is also on 104.7, near the Wheatley, Ontario and Comber, Ontario areas (mostly in the southeastern corner of Essex County).


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