Nelson McCausland MLA
(Democratic Unionist Party - Constituency: North Belfast).
A personal blog in which I comment on a wide variety of issues, political, cultural, social, historical and religious. If something takes my attention, then I may well comment on it.
On his blog, entitled Bloggin fae the Burn, Mark Thompson has reproduced a section of 1572 map from the English settlement of the Ards by Sir Thomas Smith during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. I see that Belfast is represented as Belfurst.
Fascinating, and Sketrick, Newtown(ards) and Killard get a medieval spelling too!
ReplyDeleteAnd in County Antrim, the big port of 1572 besides Carrick (Knokfergus) was Portmuck in Islandmagee!
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