County Down, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Down’s past.
County Down – Family Histories
- Benson and the Downshire Estate
- Bunbury Isaac of Holywood (Hollywood), near Hillsborough
- Christy of Moyallon
- Dunville of Holywood
- Guinness / McGuinness of Iveagh
- Hill, Marquess of Downshire, referenced here.
- MacCartan of County Down, referenced here.
- Maxwell of Finnebrogue
- McClintock of Kilwarlin
- McMullan of the Ards Peninsula
- Wakefield of Marino
People connected to County Down
- St. Columba (521-592) – the Making of a Missionary
- Peter the Great – Ulster Damask & The Beard Tax
- Arthur Guinness (1759-1803) – The Brewing Maestro
- Robert Ross, burner of the White House, referenced here.
- Commander Thomas McDonnell (1788-1864)
- Rev. Patrick Bronte and the Bronte Sisters
- Hon. the Rev. Henry Ward, Rector of Killinchy, referenced here.
- Captain William McClintock Bunbury (1835-1866), whose brother drowned in Strangford Lough
- Stephen Martin, MBE – Field Hockey Olympian
- Rory McElroy
Articles with a County Down Connection
- Mesolithic Seaforde
- A Short History of Irish Gold
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- Vikings on Irish Waterways
- Normans on the Irish Waterways
- Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
- Redmond Kane and the O’Cahan Family
- The Newry Canal
- The Irish Roots of the Brontë Sisters
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- The Rathdonnell Estate in Ulster
- The Irish and the White House
- The Ards Explosion, 1917
- Notes on Holywood, County Down
- Waterways Through Time
- Waterways Through Time – Season 2