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Today we look at the history of this delightful Sea Side village of Kearney Part 2 Kearney Village as Show piece Village carefully restored by the National Trust. The Village lies three miles to the East of Portaferry with views to Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Mountains of Mourne. The Trust owns a number of cottages and these have been restored in the vernacular style giving authenticity to this place of character. The long narrow road through green rounded drumlins takes visitors to the charming village the eight- acre sandy beach of Knockinelder and a small pocket of saltmarsh. In the nineteenth century Kearney was a flourishing community with fishing as the central occupation. Stories are told of a ( she - cruiser ) crewed entirely by woman. In Part 2 will be examining the history of this charming village Directions to this village are as follows from Newtownards take the A 20 Portaferry Road take the B173 Kircubbin to Cloughey Road and follow the signsposts to Kearney links can also be found on facebook instragam and X and in the video a telephone number is part of the video If you like this sort of content Please Consider Subscribing as it is totally Free and Like and Hit the Bell to be Notified when i bring out my next video. Most of all Thank you for Watching. Colin Burnside.

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