BANGOR, a seaport and market town of Ireland, county Down, on the south side of Belfast Lough, 12 miles E.N.E. of Belfast. Pop. in 1851, 2850. It carries on a considerable cotton and linen trade, and a fishery; and has a savings-bank, market-house, a parish church, several chapels, and a public library. It is frequented as a bathing-place. Remains of an ancient abbey, said to have been destroyed by the Danes in 820, are still to be seen.