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HOLYWOOD

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 624 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLYWOOD  , a seaport of

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county Down,
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Ireland, on the
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east
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shore of
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Belfast Lough, 41 M . N.E. from Belfast by the Belfast & County Down railway . Its pleasant situation renders it a favourite residential locality of the wealthier classes in Belfast . There was a religious
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settlement here from the 7th
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century, which subsequently became a Franciscan monastery . The old
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church dating from the
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late 12th or
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early 13th century marks its site . A
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Solemn
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League and
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Covenant was signed here in 1644 for the
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defence of the
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kingdom, and the document is preserved at Belfast .

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