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Cairnryan's history is mostly centred around the port, which was built in the mid 1800s, and was one of the most important harbours in the whole of Britain! Before the war, the village was home to oyster fishermen and quarrymen but all this changed in 1941 when Cairnryan was known as 'Military Port No.2' - why? Because if the ports of Southampton and Glasgow were lost to the Germans, plan 'B' was to use Cairnryan! Just north of the village was a factory building sections of Mulberry (floating) Harbour for use in Normandy in 1944 and you can still see a concrete section of it at the North end of the village. You can also vaguely make out the line of where the wartime railway laid, just above the shoreline. Just after the war the port was used to take in surplus and then dispose of it in the sea. If you are interested in finding out more about Cairnryan's wartime history, take a look at The Cairnryan Military Railway 1941-1959 by the Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech. Up until P&O's arrival the port's main role was to undertake ship breaking.