Ballymena
 
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Location in Northern Ireland
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Ballymena ( Irish : An Baile Meánach , "middle town") is a town in the historic County of Antrim , Northern Ireland , United Kingdom , and was the administrative seat of the former District of Ballymena , which in 2015 became the District of Mid and East Antrim . It is now the administrative seat of the District Mid and East Antrim. The city has 29,467 inhabitants (2011), of which 25.8% are Catholic and 61.4% belong to another Christian denomination.
There is a hill fort and the government bunker Ballymena on site . The Court Tomb of Ballymarlagh is southeast of Ballymena.
sons and daughters of the town
- James McHenry (1753–1816), one of the founding fathers of the USA
- Matilda Cullen Knowles (1864-1933), botanist
- Syd Millar (* 1934), rugby player and former chairman of the world association
- Billy Kerr (1945–2012), racing cyclist
- Clodagh Rodgers (born 1947), singer and actress
- Liam Neeson (born 1952), actor
- Alexander Aloysius McGuckian (* 1953), Roman Catholic religious, Bishop of Raphoe
- Nigel Worthington (* 1961), football player and coach
- James Nesbitt (born 1965), actor
- Paul Kearney (born 1967), author
- Colin Murdock (* 1975), football player
- Ryan Connor (* 1984), racing cyclist
- Steven Davis (born 1985), football player
- Michael McKillop (* 1990), track and field athlete
Web links
Commons : Ballymena - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Ballymena (Town) on citypopulation.de, accessed on September 17, 2018
Coordinates: 54 ° 52 ′ N , 6 ° 17 ′ W