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| | Copeland Islands, Down county, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | COPELAND ISLANDS, a cluster of three islands, situated at the south entrance of Belfast Lough, and in that part of the parish of BANGOR which is in the barony of ARDES, county of DOWN, and province of ULSTER, called respectively Copeland, Lighthouse, and Mew islands. |
 | | Copeland island, the largest of the three, called also Big island and Neddrum, is 2 miles (N.N.E) from Donaghadee, and about one mile from the mainland; it comprises about 200 acres, and contains 15 houses; near a small inlet, called Chapel bay, are the ruins of a church, with a burial ground. |
 | | Off this island the Enterprise, of Liverpool, a homeward-bound vessel from the coast of Guinea, was totally wrecked in 1801; she is said to have had on board £40,000 in dollars, which, with all her cargo, lay buried in the sea till 1833, when Mr. |
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