What County Is West Belfast In?

Belfast

Is Belfast in County Down or Antrim?

The majority of Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, is in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down. According to the 2001 census, it is currently one of only two counties of the Island of Ireland in which a majority of the population are from a Protestant background.

Which part of Belfast is in County Down?

County Down is now divided into the districts of Belfast City, Ards and North Down, Newry Mourne and Down, and Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon which is mostly in County Armagh.

Is West Belfast in County Down?

Part of Belfast is in Co. Antrim, and part is in County Down. County Antrim is north of the Lagan River which flows into Belfast Lough, and County Down is south of those. Pretty sure the other 4 counties of Northern Ireland do not extend into the city limits of Belfast.

Where is West Belfast?

Belfast West (Irish: Béal Feirste Thiar, Ulster Scots: Bilfawst Wast) is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. It was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election in 1973, which elected the then Northern Ireland Assembly. It usually shares boundaries with the Belfast West UK Parliament constituency.

Is West Belfast Protestant or Catholic?

Catholic
As you can see, west Belfast is mainly Catholic, in most areas over 90%. For many years, the Catholic population expanded to the southwest, but in recent years it has started expanding around the Shankill and into north Belfast. The east of the city is predominantly Protestant, typically 90% or more.

What are the 6 Northern Ireland counties?

The six north-eastern counties – Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Londonderry – formed the new Northern Ireland. These were the counties that had the largest unionist and protestant majority.

What are the two sides of Belfast?

The peace lines or peace walls are a series of separation barriers in Northern Ireland that separate predominantly republican and nationalist Catholic neighbourhoods from predominantly loyalist and unionist Protestant neighbourhoods. They have been built at urban interface areas in Belfast and elsewhere.

How Belfast is divided?

The city is traditionally divided into four main areas based on the cardinal points of a compass, each of which form the basis of constituencies for general elections: North Belfast, East Belfast, South Belfast, and West Belfast. These four areas meet at Belfast City Centre.

How many counties are in Belfast?

Northern Ireland is divided into six counties, namely: Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. Six largely rural administrative counties based on these were among the eight primary local government areas of Northern Ireland from its 1921 creation until 1973.

Which parts of Belfast are Catholic?

West Belfast
The Falls Road (from Irish túath na bhFál ‘territory of the enclosures’) is the main road through West Belfast, Northern Ireland, running from Divis Street in Belfast City Centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. The name has been synonymous for at least a century and a half with the Catholic community in the city.

Is Belfast more Catholic or Protestant?

These figures based on the 2021 census at district level mask wide variations on smaller scales. In the Belfast City Council and Derry and Strabane District Council areas, the figures at ward level vary from 99% Protestant to 92% Catholic.

What is the most deprived area in Belfast?

In total, nine of the 20 most deprived SOAs in Northern Ireland are located in Belfast North, six in Foyle, and two in Belfast West.

Is West Belfast loyalist?

The UDA West Belfast Brigade is the section of the Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), based in the western quarter of Belfast, in the Greater Shankill area.

Is Shankill north or west Belfast?

The Shankill Road (from Irish: Seanchill, meaning ‘old church’) is one of the main roads leading through West Belfast, in Northern Ireland.

Is West Belfast unionist?

Belfast West has historically been the most nationalist of Belfast’s four constituencies, though it is only in the last few decades that the votes for unionist parties have plunged to tiny levels.

What is the most Protestant place in Northern Ireland?

They march to a very different beat in the village of Drum, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sort of place that still manages to be an eye-opener in the heart of Co Monaghan.

Do Catholics and Protestants mix in Belfast?

A combination of political, religious and social differences plus the threat of intercommunal tensions and violence has led to widespread self-segregation of the two communities. Catholics and Protestants lead largely separate lives in a situation that some have dubbed “self-imposed apartheid”.

What is a person from Belfast called?

According to some websites, we’re called Belfastians, but frankly, no-one has ever used that word in public and we’ve never seen it on anything official. And let’s face it, it’s just not snappy to call people from Belfast, ‘people from Belfast‘ all the time.

What are the 3 smallest counties in Ireland?

The smallest county in Ireland is county Louth, which is just 820 km² in area – 9 times smaller than county Cork. The next smallest is county Carlow, which is 896 km². The smallest county in Northern Ireland is county Armagh, at 1,254 km².

What is the forgotten county in Ireland?

Donegal
It’s nicknamed Ireland’s Forgotten County
Isolated physically, culturally and even politically, Donegal is the large county at Ireland’s northwestern corner.