Having been born in Belfast and having lived in Bangor Northern Ireland for many years I counted the number of towns in North America with these names This was a few years ago now but I seem to remember there having been something like 13 towns in the USA called Bangor and about 6 towns called Belfast With the large number of Scots Irish and Irish Americans in the USA would it be surprising if this town wasn t named after the town of Bangor located in Northern Ireland The only tune I can think of that mentions Bangor refers to the town in Wales Either way perhaps one of these towns deserves mention in the article