Address:Bangor Rd, Holywood BT18 0EX Approximately 8 miles from Belfast ‘s City Centre, just yards away from the noisy whirl Of traffic on the Belfast to Bangor road, is one of the busiest hotels in the North. You are immediately transported to an atmosphere of yesteryear, one of peaceful bliss. It was built in 1876 […]
99. The Old Commercial Bar
Address2 Kildare St, Ardglass,Downpatrick BT30 7TR Just a few doors down from the Ardglass Arms is The Old Commercial Bar, a gleaming white and black building with colourful window boxes. The small window above the entrance door has the name Mulheron’s Hotel on it. Joe Mulheron, who married Agnes Magee, was the grandfather of the […]
98. The Ardglass Arms Hotel
ClosedPreviously: St. Albans Arms HotelAddress8 Kildare St., Ardglass Ardglass is undoubtedly a very small town with a great seafaring past. In mediaeval times, it was the busiest sea port in Ulster, and did a brisk wine trade with France. The Ardglass Arms has been a very popular inn since it opened for business way back […]
97. The De Courcy Arms
ClosedAddress14 Church StreetDownpatrickBT30 6EJ History is etched in every stone and timber of the De Courcy Arms in Downpatrick’s Church Street. The inn bears the arms of the illustrious Norman knight, John de Courcy, who established his reign as Earl of Ulster in Downpatrick in 1177, and governed until 1203. He built a stately abbey […]