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Theme Week Ulster – Holywood

Saturday, 23 August 2014 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien
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🔊 Listen to this Post Holywood is a town and civil parish in County Down. It lies on the shore of Belfast Lough, between Belfast and Bangor. Holywood Exchange and Belfast City Airport are nearby. The town hosts an annual jazz and blues festival. The railway line from Belfast to Holywood opened in 1848, and this led to rapid development. The population of Holywood was approximately 3,500 in 1900 and had grown to 12,000 by 2001. This growth, coupled with that of other towns and villages along the coastal strip to Bangor, necessitated the construction of the Holywood Bypass in the early 1970s. Holywood today is a popular residential area and is well known for its fashionable shops, boutiques, arts and crafts.

The English name Holywood comes from Latin Sanctus Boscus, meaning “holy wood”. This was the name the Normans gave to the woodland surrounding the monastery of St Laiseran, son of Nasca. The Irish name for Holywood is Ard Mhic Nasca meaning “high ground of Mac Nasca”.

Holywood is famous for its maypole at the crossroads in the centre of town. Its origin is uncertain, but according to local folklore it dates from 1700, when a Dutch ship is said to have run aground on the shore nearby, and the crew erected the broken mast to show their appreciation of the assistance offered to them by the townsfolk. The maypole is still used for dancing at the annual May Day fair.

Nearly as famous, is the adjacent Maypole Bar, locally known as Ned’s or Carty’s. It was first licensed in 1857, and remarkably, from then until 2006, it has had only 3 proprietors. County Donegal native, Ned Carty, bought it from Mick O’Kane in the late 1960s. It had been owned by O’Kane since 1908. It is now run by Ned’s son, Brian Carty.

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