Newry At a Glance

Population: 30000
City Status Granted: 2002 County: County Down
Country: Northern Ireland
Local Gov. Website: Newry City Council


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Newry is situated in County Down in Northern Ireland. It lies equidistant from both Belfast and Dublin. Newry also had an estimated 30,000 in 2001. It originated as a settlement in the year 1144 next to a Cistercian monastery. It was a garrison and market town built a port in the year 1742. It had Ireland’s first canal in this year and opened a link with Lough Neagh. It receive city status in 2002 by the Queen Elizabeth II. The city’s name originates from the Irish language and translates as ‘An Iu(bh)ir C(h)inn Tra(ha)’. This means the ‘Yew at the Strand’, which comes from a story about Saint Patrick planting a yew tree here during the fifth century. In the Irish language the name of the city in full is hardly used, it is usually abbreviated to An tIúr. The spoken form of this sounds like the word ‘nur’ and is where the modern city name originates.

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