Warrenpoint
| Warrenpoint Rinn Mhic Giolla Rua / An Phointe / Warrenpynt Warrenpoint |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 6 ′ N , 6 ° 15 ′ W | ||
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| Country | United Kingdom | ||
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Northern Ireland | ||
| District | Newry, Morne and Down | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GB-NMD | ||
| Residents | 8721 (2011) | ||
.JPG) Warrenpoint, July 2010
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Warrenpoint ( Irish Rinn Mhic Giolla Rua , An Phointe ) is a small town and civil parish in the District of Newry, Morne and Down in County Down in Northern Ireland . It lies on the north coast of Carlingford Lough and is only separated from the Republic of Ireland by a narrow canal. The city emerged within the townland of Ringmackilroy and is now often referred to as " The Point " for short .
Warrenpoint is known for its beautiful location, the Maiden of Morne festival, the Blues on the Bay music festival, the ferry service between Warrenpoint and Omeath and the nearby Narrow Water Castle (built around 1660).
The 2011 Census found a number of 8,721 inhabitants.
geography
Civil parish Warrenpoint
The Civil Parish includes the town of Warrenpoint.
Townlands
The associated townlands are Dromore , Narrow Water and Ringmackilroy .
history
For a long time, today's small town Warrenpoint consisted of a small number of poor buildings that were inhabited by fishermen.
The name "Warrenpoint" is said to come from the surname of a family who lived there in the second half of the 18th century. Father Bernard Trainor , who worked as a local historian, mentions that a family with the name "Waring" lived there and their house was called "Warings Point". In Gaelic , the place name is Rinn Mhic Ghiolla Rua (McIlroy's point). Ringmackilroy is also listed on some names. In Gaelic the place is sometimes referred to as "An Phointe" and in English accordingly "The Point".
Walter Harris noted in 1744 that "Warrings Point is about a mile northwest of Rose Trevor".
The scenic beauty and the coastal location brought about strong growth in the 19th century. The population grew from 500 in 1824 to 1000 in 1831 and in 1884 there were already 2000 inhabitants. In the summer there were another 5,000 visitors. In 1836 there was a school, a Court House, a Savings Bank and a Farming Society. Monthly markets were held and there was a market day every Friday. In the middle of the 19th century, traders from Newry acquired permission to build a harbor on site, since before 1850 ships with more than 150 tons could not go further up the lough than to Narrow Water . A railway line opened on May 9, 1849, which made Warrenpoint even more popular as a vacation destination. Resorts sprang up and thousands took advantage of the spa facilities each year, most coming by ferry from Omeath , County Louth . The Warrenpoint Railway Station was closed in January 1965. The ferry is still in operation, but only in the summer months from May to September.
A bandstand in Town Park allowed concerts and a swimming pool was built in 1908. The baths were opened by Captain Roger Hall on Whit Monday , June 8, 1908. They are closed today.
On February 6, 1921, during the Irish War of Independence , the Irish Republican Army ambushed an Ulster Special Constabulary (USC) patrol at Warrenpoint. The raid took place on Seaview Road and a USC constable was killed in the process.
On July 15, 1944, an aircraft accident occurred when two Royal Air Force aircraft (an Airspeed Oxford (LX 598) and a Miles Martinet (MS626) of No. 290 Squadron RAF ) crashed in a civil defense exercise at Warrenpoint. The planes collided in foggy conditions, as the pilots could only see each other at the last moment. The ensuing explosion killed all occupants and parts of the aircraft fell on Church Street , Duke Street and Queen Street , as well as in Carlingford Lough. The pilots' bodies were recovered and buried in the mortuary in Newry.
On August 27, 1979, during the Northern Ireland conflict ("the Troubles"), the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) carried out an attack on a British Army convoy near Narrow Water Castle ( attack by Warrenpoint 1979 ). Eighteen soldiers were killed in the process - the British Army's largest casualty in a single engagement during the conflict. British soldiers then fired south across the border into County Louth, in the assumed direction of the attackers. Those shots killed a young English tourist, William Hudson, who had been watching the scene from Lower Ferryhill Road . A memorial was erected on the site.
On April 12, 1989, Joanne Reilly was killed by an IRA car bomb at the Warrenpoint Royal Ulster Constabulary base. False warnings had been given.
Demographics
Warrenpoint is classified as a small town by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (population between 4,500 and 10,000). On April 29, 2001, 7,000 inhabitants were counted. The majority of the population (96%) is Catholic.
Panorama pictures
Attractions
Narrow Water Castle on the outskirts is a three-story tower house from 1560 that served to protect the Newry River estuary . Across the street is the Narrow Water Castle, built in 1840.
A small but modern passenger ferry connects Warrenpoint with the village of Omeath in County Louth . The crossing there takes about fifteen minutes. Other lines lead to Narrow Water Castle, Ross Monument Rostrevor or are "Bay & Harbor Cruises".
You can fish at two small lakes, the “Mill Dam” and the “Waterworks”. A fishing permit is required for this.
The Warrenpoint Promenade served as the backdrop for Bundoran in The Butcher Boy (1997), specifically the facade of the Star of the Sea Convent and the Edwardian Swimming Baths .
Education and culture
There are several schools:
- Dromore Road Primary School
- St Dallan's Primary School (Catholic). The school was opened in September 2000 by then Minister of Education Martin McGuinness . The school is an amalgamation of Star of the Sea - and St. Peters Primary School and is located on the site of the former St. Peters Primary School.
- St Mark's High School
The Warrenpoint Pantomime Club , founded in 1950 , has performed 60 popular pantomime pieces in the city to date.
Personalities
- Denis Donoghue , * 1928, literary critic.
- George Gardiner , 1821–1891, bearer of the Victoria Cross
- Carmel Hanna , * 1946, politician of the Social Democratic and Labor Party
- Ronan Rafferty , born 1964, golfer
- Vedran Smailović , * 1956, Bosnian cellist
- Forrest Reid , 1875–1947, literary critic and writer, died in Warrenpoint in 1947
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ North-South Ministerial Council, 2010 annual report in Ulster-Scots .
- ^ Placenames Database of Ireland
- ↑ Placenames NI ( Memento of the original from November 16, 2011 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.
- ^ Warrenpoint (Town) on citypopulation.de, accessed on February 9, 2018
- ↑ a b Warrenpoint. IreAtlas Townlands Database.
- ↑ Warrenpoint station: Railscot - Irish Railways. (PDF) Retrieved February 8, 2018.
- ↑ August 1920 In: Chronology of Irish History 1919-23. 2013.
- ^ County Down Part 4. Second World War in Northern Ireland 2013.
- ^ An index of deaths from the Conflict in Ireland (R). 2013.
- ↑ nisra.gov.
