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Over a seven-year period, from 1866 to 1873, Lord Dufferin had an artificial lake excavated on his Clandeboye Estate near Bangor, County Down.44 As can be seen from plate 11, it was an irregularly shaped extensive sheet of water, about 0.75 kilometre from east to west and the same from north to south. The area of Clandeboye Lake is many times that of the one at Mount Stewart, which was also man-made. Both, however, are smaller than Lord Cloncurry's lake at Lyons illustrated in plate 66, which was excavated between the years 1805 and 1810.45 As J. T. Fulton pointed out, there was a distancing of landowners from the rest of the population in the nineteenth century, and roads within estates were often diverted away from their houses.46 At Clandeboye, the lake covered a section of the old road to the north of Gauntlet Hill,
Plate 11. Clandeboye Lake.
Source. Author's drawing.