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In the Belfast City Council and Derry and Strabane District Council areas, the figures at ward level vary from 99% Protestant to 92% Catholic. Following the reform of local government in Northern Ireland the twenty-six districts created in 1973 were replaced with eleven "super districts". The first election using these districts took place on ...
The Belfast Metropolitan Area dominates in population terms, with over a third of the inhabitants of Northern Ireland. When Northern Ireland was created, it had a Protestant majority of approximately two-to-one, [2] [3] [4] unlike the Republic of Ireland, where Catholics were in the majority. [5]
Ulster Protestants; Total population; Total ambiguous (900,000–1,000,000) ... in 1801. As Belfast became industrialised in the 19th century, ...
The Belfast Islamic Centre states that roughly half of the Muslim population lives in Belfast alone. [17] The Muslims in Northern Ireland come from over 40 countries of origin, from Western Europe all the way through to the Far East. [18] This situation is reflected in comparably complex institutional arrangements. [19]
Three-quarters of Belfast's estimated 97 peace lines and related structures (such as gates and closed roads) are in the north and west of the city. [4] These are also the poorer and more disadvantaged areas of Belfast. 67% of deaths during the sectarian violence occurred within 500 metres (550 yd) of one of these "interface structures". [5]
A 1685 plan of Belfast by the military engineer Thomas Phillips, showing the town's ramparts and Lord Chichester's castle, which was destroyed in a fire in 1708. The name Belfast derives from the Irish Béal Feirste (Irish pronunciation: [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]), [4] "Mouth of the Farset" [6] a river whose name in the Irish, Feirste, refers to a sandbar or tidal ford. [7]
County Clare has the smallest population of Protestants in Ireland; however, its county town, Ennis, saw a six-fold increase in the Church of Ireland population - 68 to 400. [15] The Presbyterian church between 1991 and 2002 saw an increase of almost 56%, followed by an increase of almost 20% between 2002 and 2011.
Protestantism is a Christian minority on the island of Ireland. In the 2011 census of Northern Ireland, 48% (883,768) described themselves as Protestant, which was a decline of approximately 5% from the 2001 census. [1] [2] In the 2011 census of the Republic of Ireland, 4.27% of the population described themselves as Protestant. [3]