Strabane
Strabane ( Irish : An Srath Bán ) is a town in the historic county of Tyrone in Northern Ireland ( United Kingdom ). It was also the administrative seat of the former district of the same name , which was merged into the Derry City and Strabane district in 2015 . Strabane is now one of the two administrative headquarters of the Derry City and Strabane district. The city is right on the border with County Donegal and thus the Republic of Ireland .
The place
The Morne flows through the center of Strabane and meets the River Finn to form the River Foyle . The Lifford Bridge , one of three bridges over the fast flowing Foyle, connects Strabane with Lifford on the west bank of the Foyle. The twin town of Lifford is the administrative center of Donegal County, but with fewer than 1,500 residents eleven times smaller than Strabane.
At the census in April 2001, the population of Strabane was determined to be 13,456; 93.3% of them had a Catholic and 6.1% a Protestant background. By mid-2008 the population had grown to over 16,000. Strabane is the second largest city in Tyrone after the county capital Omagh . Similar to Omagh, where two rivers also join, Strabane has repeatedly suffered severe damage from flooding in the city center.
In the course of the Irish-language education there is a "primary school" in Strabane as a Gaelscoil . Strabane was particularly badly affected by the Northern Ireland conflict and is referred to as the most bombed town in Northern Ireland ("the most bombed town in Northern Ireland").
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Strabane is roughly halfway between Omagh and Derry City in County Londonderry , Northern Ireland's second largest city after Belfast . It is connected to both cities via the A5, and in its south-eastern extension as the N2 in the Republic of Ireland via Monaghan also to Dublin . The N14 also connects Strabane via Lifford with Letterkenny , the largest city in County Donegal, just a few miles away . The Éireann bus connects Strabane with Busáras in Dublin and Letterkenny in the northwest several times a day . Despite its relative size, Strabane can no longer be reached via the rail network.
The Strabane Canal is currently being restored.
sons and daughters of the town
- Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), British general and Governor of Québec
- William Burke (1792–1829), serial killer (from Urney, a townland of Strabane)
- Annie Maunder (1868–1947), astronomer and mathematician
- Flann O'Brien (1911-1966), writer
- Paul Brady (* 1947), folk musician and singer-songwriter
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Strabane at Northern Ireland Neighborhood Information Service (NINIS, accessed August 14, 2011).
- ↑ Northern Ireland Assembly: Inquiry into Town Center Regeneration from May 29, 2008 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 54 ° 49 ′ 48 ″ N , 7 ° 28 ′ 12 ″ W.