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A2 road (Northern Ireland)

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The A2 is a major road in Northern Ireland, a considerable length of which is often referred to the Antrim Coast Road because much of it follows the scenic coastline of County Antrim; other parts of the road follow the coasts in Counties Down and Londonderry. [1]

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A1 road (Northern Ireland)

The A1 is a major route in Northern Ireland.

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A24 road (Northern Ireland)

The A24 is a major road in Northern Ireland; running from Belfast, through Carryduff and Ballynahinch to Clough, near Newcastle where it meets the A2.

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A26 road (Northern Ireland)

The A26 is a road in Northern Ireland.

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A40 road (Northern Ireland)

The A40 links Derry in the North West of Northern Ireland to Raphoe in County Donegal.

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A5 road (Northern Ireland)

The A5 is a major primary route in Northern Ireland.

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A515 road (Northern Ireland)

The A515 Skeoge Link is road in Northern Ireland which was designed to complete the route between Foyle Bridge and Donegal.

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A6 road (Northern Ireland)

The A6 road in Northern Ireland runs from the Belfast to Derry, via Antrim.

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Ardglass

Ardglass is a coastal fishing village, townland (of 321 acres) and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland, in the historic barony of Lecale Lower.

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Ards Peninsula

The Ards Peninsula is a peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland, that separates Strangford Lough from the North Channel of the Irish Sea on the north-east coast of Ireland.

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Ballycastle, County Antrim

Ballycastle is a small town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Ballygalley

Ballygalley or Ballygally is a village and holiday resort in County Antrim, Northern Ireland which lies on the Antrim coast, approximately 3 miles north of Larne.

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Ballyhalbert

Ballyhalbert (formerly known as Talbotston and Halbertston) is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Bangor, County Down

Bangor is a large town in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Basalt

Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.

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Belfast

Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.

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Belfast City Centre

Belfast City Centre is the central business district of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Bridgend, County Donegal

Bridgend or Bridge End is a village in County Donegal, Ireland, on the Inishowen peninsula.

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Burntisland

Burntisland (Bruntisland) is a royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Bushmills

Bushmills is a village on the north coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Carnlough

Carnlough is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge

Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge (locally pronounced carrick-a-reedy) is a famous rope bridge near Ballintoy in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Carrickfergus

Carrickfergus, colloquially known as "Carrick", is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Carrickfergus Castle

Carrickfergus Castle (from the Irish Carraig Ḟergus or "cairn of Fergus", the name "Fergus" meaning "strong man") is a Norman Irish castle in Northern Ireland, situated in the town of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, on the northern shore of Belfast Lough.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.

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Charles Lanyon

Sir Charles Lanyon DL, JP (6 January 1813 – 31 May 1889) was an English architect of the 19th century.

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Cloghy

Cloghy, also spelt Cloughey or Cloughy, is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Clough

Clough is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Coleraine

Coleraine (Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; Irish Place Names, page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002.) is a large town and civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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County Antrim

County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim)) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population of about 618,000. County Antrim has a population density of 203 people per square kilometre or 526 people per square mile. It is also one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, as well as part of the historic province of Ulster. The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Bushmills produces whiskey, and Portrush is a popular seaside resort and night-life area. The majority of Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, is in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down. It is currently one of only two counties of Ireland to have a majority of the population from a Protestant background, according to the 2001 census. The other is County Down to the south.

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County Donegal

County Donegal (Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster.

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County Down

County Down is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland in the northeast of the island of Ireland.

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County Londonderry

County Londonderry (Contae Dhoire; Ulster-Scots: Coontie Lunnonderrie), also known as County Derry, is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland.

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Culmore

Culmore is a townland in Derry, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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Cushendall

Cushendall, formerly known as Newtown Glens, is a village and townland (of 153 acres) in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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David Malcolm Orr

David Orr CBE, FREng, FICE, FIAE, (born 1953 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a civil engineer.

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Derry

Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-largest city on the island of Ireland.

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Donaghadee

Donaghadee is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Dundrum, County Down

Dundrum is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Dunluce Castle

Dunluce Castle is a now-ruined medieval castle in Northern Ireland.

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Eden, County Antrim

Eden is a residential settlement on the eastern edge of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, located within a larger electoral ward area of the same name.

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Foyle Bridge

The Foyle Bridge is a bridge in Derry, Northern Ireland.

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Giant's Causeway

The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption.

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Glenarm

Glenarm is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Glens of Antrim

The Glens of Antrim, (Placenames Database of Ireland) known locally as simply The Glens, is a region of County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Greenisland

Greenisland is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Holywood

Holywood is a town in the metropolitan area of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Ian Paisley

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014), was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland.

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Institution of Civil Engineers

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is an independent professional association for civil engineers and a charitable body in the United Kingdom.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea (Muir Éireann / An Mhuir Mheann, Y Keayn Yernagh, Erse Sea, Muir Èireann, Ulster-Scots: Airish Sea, Môr Iwerddon) separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain; linked to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the Straits of Moyle.

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Jordanstown

Jordanstown is a townland (of 964 acres) and electoral ward in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Kilkeel

Kilkeel is a small town, civil parish and townland (of 554 acres and 6521inh) in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Larne

Larne (the name of a Gaelic territory) is a seaport and industrial market town, as well as a civil parish, on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, with a population of 18,323 people in the 2008 Estimate.

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Letterkenny

Letterkenny, nicknamed "the Cathedral Town", is the largest and most populous town in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland.

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Limavady

Limavady is a market town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, with Binevenagh as a backdrop.

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M2 motorway (Northern Ireland)

The M2 is a motorway in Belfast and County Antrim in Northern Ireland.

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M3 motorway (Northern Ireland)

The M3 is an urban motorway 0.8 miles (1.3 km) in length owned by Siac Construction and Cintra, S.A. that connects the M2 in north Belfast, Northern Ireland to the A2 Sydenham Bypass in east Belfast.

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M5 motorway (Northern Ireland)

The M5 is a spur motorway of 1.4 miles (2.3 km) length in north Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Millisle

Millisle or Mill Isle (from Scots mill + isle, meaning "the meadow of the mill") is a village on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Mourne Mountains

The Mourne Mountains (na Beanna Boirche), also called the Mournes or Mountains of Mourne, are a granite mountain range in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland.

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Muff, County Donegal

Muff is a village in County Donegal, Ireland.

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N13 road (Ireland)

The N13 road is a national primary road in Ireland, running in County Donegal from Stranorlar to the border near Derry.

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Newcastle, County Down

Newcastle is a small seaside resort in County Down, Northern Ireland, which had a population of 7,444 at the 2001 Census.

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Newry

Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, divided by the Clanrye river in counties Armagh and Down, from Belfast and from Dublin.

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Newtownabbey

Newtownabbey (Irish: Baile Nua na Mainistreach) is a large settlement north of Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Norman architecture

The term Norman architecture is used to categorise styles of Romanesque architecture developed by the Normans in the various lands under their dominion or influence in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)

North Antrim is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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Old Bushmills Distillery

The Old Bushmills Distillery is a distillery in Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Ould Lammas Fair

The Auld Lammas Fair is a traditional fair held in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland every year on the last Monday and Tuesday of August.

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Portaferry

Portaferry is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough.

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Portaferry–Strangford ferry

The Portaferry–Strangford ferry service crosses Strangford Lough at its narrowest point, close to where the lough joins the Irish Sea.

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Portavogie

Portavogie is a village, townland and fishing port in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Portrush

Portrush is a small seaside resort town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, on the County Londonderry border.

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Portstewart

Portstewart is a small town in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

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Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Belfast

The Queen Elizabeth ll Bridge is a bridge in Belfast, Northern Ireland, not to be confused with the adjacent Queen's Bridge.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Rostrevor

Rostrevor is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Safety fuse

The safety fuse is a type of fuse invented and patented by English inventor William Bickford in 1831.

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Shore Road, Belfast

The Shore Road is a major arterial route and area of housing and commerce that runs through north Belfast and Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland.

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Strangford

Strangford is a small village at the mouth of Strangford Lough in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Strangford Lough

Strangford Lough (from Old Norse Strangr Fjörðr, meaning "strong sea-inlet" - Strangford Lough) is a large sea loch or inlet in County Down, in the east of Northern Ireland.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Warrenpoint

Warrenpoint is a small town and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Waterfoot, County Antrim

Waterfoot is a small village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Westlink (road)

The Westlink road in Belfast, Northern Ireland is a dual carriageway throughpass, designated the A12, connecting the M1 to the M2 and M3 motorways which run south, north and east of the city, respectively.

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Whitehead, County Antrim

Whitehead is a small seaside town on the east coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland, lying almost midway between the towns of Carrickfergus and Larne.

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William Bald

William Bald FRSE MRIA FGS MWS (c. 1789 – March 1857) was a Scottish surveyor, cartographer and civil engineer.

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William Bickford (1774–1834)

William Bickford (1774–1834) was an English inventor.

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William IV of the United Kingdom

William IV (William Henry; 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death in 1837.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_road_(Northern_Ireland)

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