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Logo used from 2006 to 2015. Gumtree was founded in March 2000 by Michael Pennington and Simon Crookall as a local London classified ads and community site, designed to connect Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans who were either planning to move, or had just arrived in the city, and needed help getting started with accommodation, employment and meeting new people.
The following places in countries other than Ireland are named after places in Ireland. Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland. The following place names sometimes share strong ties with the original place ...
Belfast (/ˈbɛl.fæst/ or /bəlˈfɑːst/) is a town in Allegany County, New York, United States. The town is in what is called the Southern Tier of the state. Its population was 1,656 at the 2020 census. [2] It was named in 1825 after the city of Belfast, Ireland, because it had numerous residents of Scots-Irish ancestry from that area.
Belfast is located at (42.3428443, −78.1113975) and its elevation is 1,309 feet (399 [ 1 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , Belfast has a total area of 1.412 square miles (3.66 km 2 ), of which 1.385 square miles (3.59 km 2 ) is land and 0.027 square miles (0.07 km 2 ) is water.
Bangor (/ ˈ b æ ŋ ɡ ər / BANG-gər; [3] from Irish Beannchar [ˈbʲaːn̪ˠəxəɾˠ]) [1] is a city in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the southern side of Belfast Lough.It is within the Belfast metropolitan area and is 13 miles (22 km) east of Belfast city centre, to which it is linked by the A2 road and the Belfast–Bangor railway line.
The island of Ireland has relatively few tall buildings. The island's first tall building was Liberty Hall , built in 1965, which stands at 59.4 metres (195 ft). The current tallest habitable building on the island of Ireland is the Obel Tower in Belfast , Northern Ireland at 85 metres (279 ft).
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 ]
Both the Ulster Folk Museum and Ulster Transport Museum are situated in Cultra, Northern Ireland, about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of the city of Belfast.Now operating as two separate museums, the Folk Museum endeavours to illustrate the way of life and traditions of the people in Northern Ireland, past and present, while the Transport Museum explores and exhibits methods of transport by land ...