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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 Antrim.
Coleraine Football Club is a professional [2] Northern Irish football club, playing in the NIFL Premiership, the highest level of the Northern Ireland Football League. The club, founded in 1927 hails from Coleraine , County Londonderry , and plays its home matches at The Showgrounds .
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.
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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]
Somerset was the Anglicised name for an Irish estate near Coleraine, on which a succession of country houses were built.The formation of the estate dates back to the Plantation of Ulster, when it became the property of the Merchant Taylors' Company.
During the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, meetings of Londonderry County Council were held at the Coleraine Courthouse. [1] [2] In the 1960s, county leaders decided that the courthouse was too cramped to accommodate the county council in the context of the county council's increasing administrative responsibilities, especially while the courthouse was still acting as ...