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Civil parish of Comber
Towns in County Down

Ards and North Down Borough Council

Ards and North Down Borough Council is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015.

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Artificial turf

Artificial turf is a surface of synthetic fibers made to look like natural grass, used in sports arenas, residential lawns and commercial applications that traditionally use grass.

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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.

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Barony (county division)

A barony is an administrative division of a county in Scotland, Ireland, outlying parts of England and historically France and Sardinia.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Belfast and County Down Railway

The Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) was an Irish gauge railway in Ireland (later Northern Ireland) linking Belfast with County Down.

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Brantwood F.C.

Brantwood Football Club is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club playing in the Ballymena & Provincial Football League.

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C.I.Y.M.S. Hockey Club

CIYMS Hockey Club is a hockey club based at C.I.Y.M.S. Sports Club, Circular Road, Belfast.

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Campbell College

Campbell College located in Belfast, Northern Ireland and founded in 1894 comprises a preparatory school department (junior age) and a senior Northern Ireland 'Voluntary Grammar' school, the latter meaning, in terms of provision of education, a government funded, selective school.

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Castle Espie

Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on the banks of Strangford Lough, three miles south of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name.

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Castlereagh Lower

Castlereagh Lower (named after the former barony of Castlereagh) is a historic barony in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Civil parishes in Ireland

Civil parishes are units of territory in the island of Ireland that have their origins in old Gaelic territorial divisions.

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Comber (civil parish)

Comber is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. Comber and Comber (civil parish) are civil parish of Comber.

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Comber Earlies

Comber Earlies, also called new season Comber potatoes, are potatoes grown around the town of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Comber Greenway

The Comber Greenway is a traffic-free section of the National Cycle Network that runs along the old Belfast-Comber railway line.

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Comber railway station

Comber railway station was on the Belfast and County Down Railway which ran from Belfast to Newcastle, County Down in Northern Ireland.

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Comber Recreation F.C.

Comber Recreation Football Club (or more commonly Comber Rec.) is an intermediate, Northern Irish football club based in Comber, playing in the Premier Division of the Northern Amateur Football League.

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Comber Whiskey

Comber Whiskey was an Irish whiskey distilled in Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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County Down

County Down is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.

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County surveyor

A county surveyor is a public official in the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Dehradun

Dehradun, also known as Dehra Doon, is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Dundonald, County Down

Dundonald (Gaelic: Dùn Dhòmhnaill) is a large settlement and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Comber and Dundonald, County Down are towns in County Down.

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Edmund De Wind

Edmund De Wind, (11 December 1883 – 21 March 1918) was an Irish British Army officer during the First World War, and posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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Flax

Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae.

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Flood wall

A floodwall is a freestanding, permanent, engineered structure designed to prevent encroachment of floodwaters.

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Formula Three

Formula Three, also called Formula 3, abbreviated as F3, is a third-tier class of open-wheel formula racing.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Gurkha

The Gurkhas or Gorkhas, with the endonym Gorkhali (Nepali: गोर्खाली), are soldiers native to the Indian subcontinent, chiefly residing within Nepal and some parts of North India.

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Harry Ferguson

Henry George Ferguson (4 November 188425 October 1960) was a British mechanic and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor and its three point linkage system, for being the first person in Ireland to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99.

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History of Ireland

The first evidence of human presence in Ireland dates to around 33,000 years ago, with further findings dating the presence of homo sapiens to around 10,500 to 7,000 BCE.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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Irish Senior Cup (cricket)

The Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the RSA Bob Kerr Irish Senior Cup is a 50-over cricket competition for Irish amateur clubs.

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J. M. Andrews

John Miller Andrews, (17 July 1871 – 5 August 1956) was the second prime minister of Northern Ireland from 1940 to 1943.

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Jonny Kane

Jonathan Ernest Kane (born 14 May 1973) is a British racing driver who has competed at various levels of motorsport.

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Kirk Cup

The Kirk Cup is the oldest hockey tournament in Ulster and the oldest provincial hockey trophy in Ireland.

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La Mon restaurant bombing

The La Mon restaurant bombing was an incendiary bomb attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 17 February 1978 and has been described as one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles.

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List of civil parishes of County Down

In Ireland, Counties are divided into civil parishes which are sub-divided into townlands.

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List of localities in Northern Ireland by population

This is a list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population.

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NCU Challenge Cup

The NCU Challenge Cup, also called the NCU Senior Challenge Cup and the NCU Senior Cup, is the most important provincial cricket knock-out cup of the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland.

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NCU Senior League

The Northern Cricket Union (NCU) Senior League is the provincial cricket league within the NCU jurisdiction in Ireland, which covers counties Antrim, Armagh, Down and south Tyrone of Northern Ireland.

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Nendrum Monastery

Nendrum Monastery (Irish: Naondroim) was a Christian monastery on Mahee Island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Newtownards

Newtownards is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. Comber and Newtownards are towns in County Down.

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North Down Cricket Club

North Down Cricket Club is an Irish cricket club based in Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, playing in the NCU Premier League. Comber and North Down Cricket Club are civil parish of Comber.

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North Down Hockey Club

North Down Hockey Club is a field hockey club affiliated to the Ulster Branch of Hockey Ireland. Comber and North Down Hockey Club are civil parish of Comber.

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Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency

The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA, Gníomhaireacht Thuaisceart Éireann um Staitisticí agus Taighde) is an executive agency within the Department of Finance in Northern Ireland.

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Operation Michael

Operation Michael (Unternehmen Michael) was a major German military offensive during World War I that began the German spring offensive on 21 March 1918.

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Ottilie Patterson

Anna Ottilie Patterson (31 January 1932 – 20 June 2011) was a Northern Irish blues singer best known for her performances and recordings with the Chris Barber Jazz Band in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Plantation of Ulster

The Plantation of Ulster (Plandáil Uladh; Ulster Scots: Plantin o Ulstèr) was the organised colonisation (plantation) of Ulstera province of Irelandby people from Great Britain during the reign of King James VI and I. Most of the settlers (or planters) came from southern Scotland and northern England; their culture differed from that of the native Irish.

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Primary school

A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).

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Prime minister

A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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RAC Tourist Trophy

The RAC Tourist Trophy (sometimes called the International Tourist Trophy) is a motor racing award presented by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) to the overall victor of a motor race in the United Kingdom.

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Regent House School

Regent House School is a co-educational, controlled grammar school in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Riley Motor

RileyInformation extracted from Notice issued in compliance with the Regulations of the Committee of The Stock Exchange, London (with regard to the issue of 150,000 Preference Shares of £1 each on 17 January 1934).

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Robert Rollo Gillespie

Major-General Sir Hugh Robert Rollo Gillespie (21 January 1766 – 31 October 1814Dictionary of Indian Biography; Charles E Buckland p166 (1906)) was an officer in the British Army.

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Royal Ulster Rifles

The Royal Irish Rifles (became the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1 January 1921) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, first created in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot and the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot.

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Scottish people

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots fowk; Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland.

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Steel & Sons Cup

The Steel & Sons Cup (also referred to as the Steel Cup) is an intermediate football competition in Northern Ireland run by the North East Ulster Football Association (also known as the County Antrim & District Football Association).

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Stephen Craigan

Stephen James Craigan (born 29 October 1976) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer.

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Strangford (Assembly constituency)

Strangford (Ulster Scots: Strangfurd) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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Strangford (UK Parliament constituency)

Strangford (Irish: Loch Cuan, Ulster Scots: Strangfurd) is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

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Strangford Lough

Strangford Lough is a large sea lough or inlet in County Down, in the east of Northern Ireland.

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Street circuit

A street circuit is a motorsport racing circuit composed of temporarily closed-off public roads of a city, town or village, used in motor races.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.

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The Green, Comber

The Green is a cricket ground in Comber, Northern Ireland and the home of North Down Cricket Club.

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Thomas Andrews

Thomas Andrews Jr. (7 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a British businessman and shipbuilder, who was managing director and head of the drafting department of the shipbuilding company Harland and Wolff in Belfast, Ireland.

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Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New York City, United States.

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Townland

A townland (baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: toonlann) is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering.

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Tractor

A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or construction.

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Ulster Hockey Union

The Ulster Hockey Union is the governing body for field hockey in Ulster.

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Ulster Senior League (men's hockey)

The Ulster Senior League is a league competition for the first teams of men's hockey clubs affiliated to the Ulster Hockey Union of Hockey Ireland.

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Vellore Mutiny

The Vellore mutiny, or Vellore Revolution, occurred on 10 July 1806 and was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company, predating the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by half a century.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British decorations system.

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West Indies

The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comber

Also known as Comber Primary School, Comber, County Down.

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See also

Civil parish of Comber

Towns in County Down

References