Cairnryan
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Cairnryan Scottish Gaelic Machair to Sgithich |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 58 ′ N , 5 ° 1 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | STRANRAER | ||
| ZIP code section | DG9 | ||
| prefix | 01776 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Dumfries and Galloway | ||
| British Parliament | Dumfries and Galloway | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Galloway and West Dumfries | ||
Cairnryan , gaelic Machair to Sgithich is a village in the Scottish council area of Dumfries and Galloway or in the traditional county of Wigtownshire . It is located about seven kilometers north of Stranraer on the east coast of Loch Ryan .
history
The surrounding lands had been owned by the Agnew clan as early as 1429 . After this there first a building called Croach had built, was in 1701 the mansion Loch Ryan House was built at the site. In the same year Cairnryan was raised to the rank of Burghs of Barony .
A major factor in the development of the village was the establishment of a military port in 1943. During the Second World War it was designated Military Port 2 and served as a port of refuge in the event of the destruction of the southern English ports within reach of Nazi German bombers. Parts of the Mulberry ports were made there. The facility, at which numerous US soldiers who were later to land in Normandy, arrived, was never fully completed. 16 years later, the military left the port. In the decades that followed, ship scrapping became an important industry in Cairnryan.
The Joug Stone (also The Cairn Ryan Stane) stands in a cottage wall in the northwest of Cairnryan.
traffic
The A77 , which connects Portpatrick on the Rhins of Galloway peninsula with Glasgow , is the main thoroughfare from Cairnryan. It connects the village directly to the trunk road network. There has been a ferry connection between Cairnryan and Larne in Northern Ireland since 1959 . In 2011, Stena Line , which had previously operated a ferry service between Stranraer and Belfast , moved to a new deep-sea port north of Cairnryan. The connection to Belfast has been handled through this port since then.
Individual evidence
- ^ List of Gaelic expressions
- ↑ a b c d e Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ Ferry connection between Cairnryan and Larne
- ↑ Ferry service between Cairnryan and Belfast
