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Coleraine Bowling Club is a lawn bowls club on Lodge Road and was founded in 1903. Coleraine is one of the most successful teams in the NIPBA and Irish bowling, with 64 titles on the honours list. The Bannsiders have claimed two Irish Bowling Association Senior Challenge Cup victories, in 1921 and 2013.
County Coleraine, called the County of Colerain in the earliest documents, [1] was one of the counties of Ireland from 1585 to 1613. It was named after its intended county town , Coleraine . It was later subsumed into County Londonderry along with a big part of the once larger County Tyrone and small territories from County Donegal and County ...
Coleraine (named after Coleraine town) is a barony in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. [4] It connects to the north-Londonderry coastline, and is bordered by five other baronies: Keenaght to the west; Loughinsholin to the south; North East Liberties of Coleraine , Dunluce Upper , and the Kilconway to the east. [ 4 ]
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Coleraine was founded in the 1830s. [3] The settlement's name may be derived from the names of two families who settled in the area, the Cole family and the Raines family. [ 4 ] The Cole family built a house in the area, and Thomas Cole Jr. served as township councillor from 1863 to 1874.
Patrick is said to have chosen a spot covered in ferns, giving rise to the name Cuil Raithin (or 'ferny retreat') which became the name of the town of Coleraine. [3] A church is known to have existed on the site from at least the medieval period.
Coleraine Distillery was established on Newmarket Street in the town in 1820. [2] From 1845 the distillery supplied whiskey to the House of Commons and the distillery began placing "HC" on its bottle labels. Robert Taylor, a High Sheriff who was knighted in 1899, purchased Coleraine Distillery in 1869. [3]
Coleraine was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.