Place:County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

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NameCounty Londonderry
Alt namesDoiresource: logainm.ie (Irish)
Contae Dhoiresource: logainm.ie (Irish)
Derrysource: logainm.ie (English)
Co. Londonderry
Co. Derry
Derrysource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 169
Londonderrysource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 549
TypeCounty
Coordinates55°N 7.333°W
Located inNorthern Ireland     (1922 - 1973)
Also located inIreland     ( - 1922)
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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County Londonderry (Ulster-Scots: Coontie Lunnonderrie), also known as County Derry, is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty two counties of Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster. Before the partition of Ireland, it was one of the counties of the Kingdom of Ireland from 1613 onward and then of the United Kingdom after the Acts of Union 1800. Adjoining the north-west shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and today has a population of about 247,132.

Since 1972, the counties in Northern Ireland, including Londonderry, have no longer been used by the state as part of the local administration. Following further reforms in 2015, the area is now governed under three different districts; Derry and Strabane, Causeway Coast and Glens and Mid-Ulster. Despite no longer being used for local government and administrative purposes, it is sometimes used in a cultural context in All-Ireland sporting and cultural events (i.e. Derry GAA).

Since 1981, it has become one of four counties in Northern Ireland that has a Catholic majority (55.56% according to the 2001 Census), with 57% of the Catholic population residing within the territory of Derry City Council.[1] The county flower is the purple saxifrage.

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