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Ardglass is a small town
in on the sea. It
has been a fishing port for over two thousand years - during
a period when the Celts developed it from nomadic hunting
and fishing to a sound agricultural and trading economy.
The sheltered deep-sea inlet of Ardglass grew into a fishing
port to the point where, 150 years ago, some four or five
hundred sail powered craft habitually crowded into the
harbour, fishing during the summer months for herring and in
the winter for whiting and cod. Towards the end of the 19th
century larger steam drifters replaced these tiny craft.
Today Ardglass
is the home port of thirty diesel powered vessels, and is a
major fish marketing and processing centre. Fish and prawns
to the value of £4 or £5 million are landed in the port each
year, most of it processed locally before shipping to the
large cities of Europe.
For more information visit
www.ardglass.net |
