Comber

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“The Square” (2008) with a Gillespie statue and St Mary's Parish Church
"The Square" (2007)

Comber ( Irish An Comar , German  The Confluence ) is a city in north-east Ireland in the historic County Down in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom . The city was part of the disbanded District Ards and has been part of the District Ards and North Down since 2015 .

geography

Comber is 5 miles south of Newtownards on the northwest end of Strangford Lough ; from Belfast it is about 15 kilometers east-southeast. Administratively, the place belongs to the District Ards and North Down . In the 2001 Census , the population of Comber was determined to be 8933 people; 91.6% of these were Protestant and 3.7% Catholic. At the 2011 Census, the population was 9078 people.

history

The eponymous confluence of two rivers that meet in Comber is that of the River Glen and the River Enler. It is believed that a church was built here as early as the 5th century; The Comber Abbey was founded by the Cistercians around 1200 . A settlement developed during the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century, but it was a mile farther south than the current location and served as a port for traders and fishermen. In the 18th century Comber moved to the location of today's market square ("The Square") and developed into an industrial center with several mills. At the time it was mainly linen and grain processing , Comber is now a center of potato production and also developed into a commuter city ​​for Belfast in the 20th century , with the population increasing from 4,000 in 1961 to just under 9,000 in 2001. For about 100 years, from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, Comber was also known for its whiskey production. For exactly 100 years, from 1850 to 1950, Comber was connected to rail traffic via the Belfast and County Down Railway .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Comber  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Area Profile of Comber - Based on 2001 Census. Northern Ireland Neighborhood Information Service (NINIS) ( February 18, 2011 memento on WebCite ).
  2. Comber (Town) on citypopulation.de, accessed on October 19, 2017

Coordinates: 54 ° 33 ′ 1 "  N , 5 ° 44 ′ 42"  W.