Newry (Northern Ireland)
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Newry Irish Iúr Cinn Trá / An tIúr |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 11 ′ N , 6 ° 20 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 29,946 | ||
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| Post town | NEWRY | ||
| ZIP code section | BT34, BT35 | ||
| prefix | 028 | ||
| Part of the country | Northern Ireland | ||
| Historic counties |
County Armagh County Down |
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| District | Newry, Morne and Down | ||
| Website: www.newryandmourne.gov.uk | |||
Newry ( Irish : An tIúr , German: "the yew") is a town in Northern Ireland , about 8 km north of the border with the Republic of Ireland . It is now one of the two administrative headquarters of the district of Newry, Morne and Down .
history
It was founded in 1144 near the Cistercian monastery Newry Abbey , making it one of the oldest cities in Northern Ireland. The eponymous yew tree , which is said to have been planted by St. Patrick , as well as the library of the monastery burned in 1162. To the west are the Eshwary megaliths .
On July 29, 2010, a small piece of history was written in Newry when the heads of government of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland opened the "Newry Bypass", the last missing piece of the M 1 motorway link between Dublin and Belfast .
Surname
The English name Newry goes back to an Anglicization of the Irish term An Iúraigh , a distorted form of An Iúrach for "the yew grove ". The modern Irish name of Newry is An tIúr [ ən̠ʲ tʲuːɾˠ ] for "the yew tree". This is a short form of Iúr Cinn Trá , which can be translated as "the yew tree at the end of the bank". The name alludes to a legend according to which Saint Patrick of Ireland is said to have planted a yew tree on the edge of the Clanrye River in the fifth century.
Personalities
- William Hare (* 1792 or 1804), serial killer
- John O'Hagan (1822–1890), senior lawyer and writer
- George Anthony Walkem (1834-1908), Canadian politician, lawyer, and judge; British Columbia Prime Minister
- Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier (1846–1901), Canadian officer in the North-West Mounted Police
- H. Newell Martin (1848-1896), British physiologist
- Willie Maley (1868-1958), Scottish football coach with Celtic Glasgow
- Joseph Barcroft (1872-1947), British physiologist
- Peter McParland (* 1934), Northern Irish football player
- John Magee (* 1936), Bishop Emeritus of Cloyne
- Pat Jennings (* 1945), Northern Irish football player
- Gerard Murphy (1948-2013), Northern Irish actor
- Rose Marie (* 1956), Northern Irish singer
- John Lynch (born 1961), British actor
- Colin Clarke (born 1962), Northern Irish football player and coach
- Ronan Rafferty (* 1964), Northern Irish professional golfer
- Terence Bannon (* 1967), Northern Irish climber and adventurer
- Susan Lynch (born 1971), British actress
- Aislin McGuckin (born 1974), actress
- Tomm Moore (* 1977), film director and animator
- Colin Turkington (* 1982), British racing driver
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the towns in Northern Ireland
- ^ Newry City - Early history. (No longer available online.) Northern Ireland Tourist Board, archived from the original on August 12, 2014 ; Retrieved August 12, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gregory Toner, Micheal B. O'Mainnin, Michael B. Mainnin: Place-Names of Northern Ireland: Volume One: County Down I: Newry and South-West Down . Institute of Irish Studies, Belfast 1992, ISBN 0-85389-432-9 , pp. 217 .
- ^ History of Newry. Newry City Center Management, accessed August 12, 2014 .
