Magherafelt

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Magherafelt
Irish Machaire Fíolta
Coordinates 54 ° 45 ′  N , 6 ° 37 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 45 ′  N , 6 ° 37 ′  W
Magherafelt (Northern Ireland)
Magherafelt
Magherafelt
Residents 8819 (2011 census)
administration
Part of the country Northern Ireland
Historic county County Londonderry
District Mid Ulster
British Parliament Mid Ulster
Northern Ireland Assembly Mid Ulster

Magherafelt ( Irish Machaire Fíolta ) is a city in the historic county of Londonderry in the historic province of Ulster in Northern Ireland . It is about halfway between Londonderry / Derry and Belfast in close proximity to Lough Neagh and the Sperrin Mountains . It was the administrative seat of the former district of the same name , which in 2015 became part of the Mid Ulster district. The city is now one of three administrative centers in the District of Mid Ulster.

The Irish name Machaire Fíolta means plain of Fioghalta . The origins of the city go back to 1425.

Facilities

Magherafelt owns two elementary and two secondary schools (Woods Primary School , Magherafelt Controlled Primary School, Rainey Endowed Grammar School , St. Mary's Grammar School) as well as several sports clubs, including the football club Magherafelt Sky Blues , the Gaelic Football O'Donovan Rossa Magherafelt GAC and the rugby club Rainey Old Boys Rugby Club Magherafelt . Magherafelt owns a hospital on the Northern Health and Social Services Board, Mid Ulster Hospital.

population

At the 2011 referendum, Magherafelt had 8,819 inhabitants. Of these, 4,516 had a United Kingdom passport and 1849 an Irish passport . 58% said they belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and 34% of another Christian church.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Magherafelt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-northernireland.php?cityid=N11000478 Census 2011. Retrieved on May 22, 2018.