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Extract from the Donaghadee Travel Guides:
East of Bangor's sprawling suburbs, the first place of any size is
DONAGHADEE
, a small market town whose origins lie in its proximity to the Scottish coast - on a clear day, it's easy to see Galloway across the water, if you climb up the little hill to
The Moat
, the remains of a nineteenth-century folly. From the 1600s until the middle of the nineteenth century, ferries ran between here and Portpatrick in Galloway, the shortest sea-crossing available. Various notables arrived in Ireland by this route, including, in 1818,
John Keats
on his walking tour of the British Isles. He was reputedly so depre...
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