'Communications in County Down' in L Proudfoot (ed), Down History and Society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county
Details:
- Author(s) Hammond, Fred
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1997
- Pages pp599-628
- Publisher Geography Publications
- Place Published Dublin
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Overview largely from the 18th century. Has sections: 'Roads'; 'County Down ports'; 'Newry, Warrenpoint,and the Newry Canal'; 'Donaghadee and the cross-channel mail packet service'; 'Belfast & County Down Railway'; 'Impact of the railways'; 'Late nineteenth and twentieth century developments'