Copeland Island
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Copeland Island or Big Copeland is the major isle of the Copeland Islands in the North Channel off the Downshire coast, north of Donaghadee. The other two islands of the group lie about a mile to the north.
The island was formerly inhabited and several buildings remain, as does a graveyard. In the early 1800s there were some 100 islanders, all named Clegg, Amerson or Anderson, but the last left during in the Second World War.
Access to the island is form Donaghadee harbour, from which boat trips sail, a fifteen minute crossing in good conditions.