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Groomsport – The Ards Peninsula: An Ulster-Scots Heartland

Episode Three in a series of 360° videos around the Ards Peninsula & North Down is from Groomsport, a beautiful little village about halfway between Bangor & Donaghadee on the County Down coast.

This episode tells the story of how, in the early 1600’s, a settlement of Scottish tenants made their new homes here under a Scottish landlord called Sir James Hamilton. How, in 1636, four Presbyterian ministers with 140 members of their congregations departed from this very bay on board a wooden sailing ship called Eagle Wing, escaping persecution and bound for Boston and how, in the late 1600’s, a huge armada of ships landed at Groomsport – led by the Duke of Schomberg, King William’s Commander in Chief.

YEAR:

2022

DURATION:

8:34

PRODUCER:

Virtual Visit Tours/Hidden Ulster Tours

Groomsport – The Ards Peninsula: An Ulster-Scots Heartland

Episode Three in a series of 360° videos around the Ards Peninsula & North Down is from Groomsport, a beautiful little village about halfway between Bangor & Donaghadee on the County Down coast.

This episode tells the story of how, in the early 1600’s, a settlement of Scottish tenants made their new homes here under a Scottish landlord called Sir James Hamilton. How, in 1636, four Presbyterian ministers with 140 members of their congregations departed from this very bay on board a wooden sailing ship called Eagle Wing, escaping persecution and bound for Boston and how, in the late 1600’s, a huge armada of ships landed at Groomsport – led by the Duke of Schomberg, King William’s Commander in Chief.

YEAR:

2022

DURATION:

8:34

PRODUCER:

Virtual Visit Tours/Hidden Ulster Tours

Groomsport – The Ards Peninsula: An Ulster-Scots Heartland

Episode Three in a series of 360° videos around the Ards Peninsula & North Down is from Groomsport, a beautiful little village about halfway between Bangor & Donaghadee on the County Down coast. This episode tells the story of how, in the early 1600’s, a settlement of Scottish tenants made their new homes here under a Scottish landlord called Sir James Hamilton. How, in 1636, four Presbyterian ministers with 140 members of their congregations departed from this very bay on board a wooden sailing ship called Eagle Wing, escaping persecution and bound for Boston and how, in the late 1600’s, a huge armada of ships landed at Groomsport – led by the Duke of Schomberg, King William’s Commander in Chief.

YEAR:

2022

DURATION:

8:34

PRODUCER:

Virtual Visit Tours/Hidden Ulster Tours

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