Place:Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland

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NameNewry
Alt namesIúr Chinn Trásource: Wikipedia
TypeCity
Coordinates54.183°N 6.333°W
Located inCounty Down, Northern Ireland
Contained Places
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Shinn
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, divided by the Clanrye river in counties Armagh and Down, from Belfast and from Dublin. It had a population of 26,967 in 2011.

Newry was founded in 1144 alongside a Cistercian monastery, although there are references to earlier settlements in the area, and is one of Ireland's oldest towns. The city is an entry to the "Gap of the North", from the border with the Republic of Ireland. It grew as a market town and a garrison and became a port in 1742 when it was linked to Lough Neagh by the first summit-level canal built in Ireland or Great Britain. A cathedral city, it is the episcopal seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore. In 2002, as part of Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee celebrations, Newry was granted city status along with Lisburn.

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