placenamesHolywood
Ard Mhic Nasca
The Ulster Folk Museum’s town area preserves buildings and designs from elsewhere, with different histories of reconstruction.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ard Mhic Nasca · Irish · main form
- Holywood · English · main form
Place & story
A bank built from the original plans
The Northern Bank at the Ulster Folk Museum opened in 1991 as a replica. Its model was the Portglenone branch and manager’s house, created from two houses under plans drawn in 1910 and completed in 1920. Because the original building was listed and remained in banking use, the museum used its architectural plans to build anew at Cultra. The display includes the manager’s domestic accommodation alongside the banking rooms. [2]
A shop moved from Antrim
Ballycultra Post Office followed a different route to the museum. Its late eighteenth-century shop building came from Castle Street in Antrim and was dismantled and moved in 1995. The museum presents it as a combined stationer’s and sub-post office. Its account identifies John Rea and his sisters Eliza and Jane with the shop in the early twentieth century. Their association belongs to its Antrim history, before reconstruction in Holywood parish. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Coordinates
- 54.60335, -5.86763 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 37.39 km²
- Logainm ID
- 65698 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Holywood. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Northern Bank and Bank Manager’s House · Ulster Folk Museum, National Museums NI
- Ballycultra Post Office · Ulster Folk Museum, National Museums NI
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-15. How this page was prepared.