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Moira (from Irish Maigh Rath, meaning 'plain of the streams or wheels') [1] is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is in the northwest of the county, near the border with counties Antrim and Armagh. The M1 motorway and Belfast–Dublin railway line are nearby. The population was 4,591 at the 2011 Census. [2]
Moira station in the summer. Moira railway station serves Moira in County Down, Northern Ireland. Despite the station serving the County Down town, the station itself is located in County Antrim, the neighbouring Lagan Canal being the boundary. Moira station is the oldest building on the NI Railways network today having been opened on 18 ...
Moira is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is mainly situated in the historic baronies of Iveagh Lower, Upper Half , with one townland in the barony of Iveagh Upper, Upper Half .
In Ireland, Counties are divided into Civil Parishes and Parishes are further divided into townlands. The following is a list of townlands in County Down , Northern Ireland : [ 1 ] Contents:
County Down (Irish: Contae an Dúin) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It covers an area of 961 sq mi (2,490 km 2 ) and has a population of 552,261. [ 6 ]
Magheralin (from Irish Machaire Lainne, meaning 'plain of the church') [2] is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the main A3 road between Moira and Lurgan, beside the River Lagan. It had a population of 2,041 people in the 2021 census. The civil parish of Magheralin covers an area of County Down. [3]
For a list sorted by population, see the list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population. The towns of Armagh, Lisburn and Newry are also classed as cities (see city status in the United Kingdom). The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) uses the following definitions: Town – population of 4,500 or more
The former station building can be seen at the end of Station Drive, Moira, just off the main Ashby Road. The former station is also reflected in the name of the village pub, the Railway Inn. In the 1990s BR planned to restore passenger services to the line as the second phase of its Ivanhoe Line project.