Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Belfast. You may be able to find further references to Belfast in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
BELFAST	a sea-port, borough, market-town, and parish	Lewis:Ireland
Belfast, Lower and Upper	2 baronies	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Belfast within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Arthur Young	21st to 31st July 1776: Down, Armagh and Antrim	23
Arthur Young	1st to 10th August 1776: Antrim, Londonderry and Donegal	2
George Head	Liverpool	1
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	1
Arthur Young	11th to 19th October 1776: Tipperary and Waterford	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer