a seaport and market town of Ireland, county of Down, on the Irish Channel, 17 miles E.N.E. of Belfast. Pop. (1851) 2821. The town is built in the form of a crescent round the harbour. A new pier has recently been constructed, inclosing a basin of 7 acres in extent, with a depth of 16 feet at low water, and having a lighthouse at its extremity. It is not however a place of much trade. The principal exports are cattle, grain, and potatoes; and the imports coal, culm, and herrings. Many of the female inhabitants of the town are engaged in the embroidery of muslin; and in the neighbourhood are numerous flax mills. A submarine telegraph has been established between this town and Portpatrick in Scotland.