What is recorded here

Portaferry, meaning landing place of the ferry in Irish, has forced thousands of people across a narrow strip of water because the road refused to bend. That simple repetition built a village where a boat, not a bridge, decided the shape of daily life. The ferry still runs every thirty minutes, carrying half a million people between two places close enough to see but separated by water that will not ask permission.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as HISTORIC SETTLEMENT: PORTAFERRY. Recorded period: LATE-MED; C17TH; C20TH; POST-MED; C19TH; C18TH. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

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