Excerpt from pages 107-111 of the book Diary of a Country Parish: Christ Church - Ardkeen Diocese of Down by Rev. Cannon Frank W.A. Bell, M.A., B.D., circa 2001.
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Description of County Down Prior to Scots Settlement Quoted from Two Centuries of Life in Down 1600-1800 by John Stevenson, 1920.
Published in 1920, John Stevenson's Two Centuries of Life in Down 1600-1800 is a detailed description of local history and life in County Down. I've extracted a description of Down prior to the Scots settlelement found on pages 20-25.