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This is a list of districts in Northern Ireland by religion or religion brought up in. In the 2001 decennial census , the Census Office for Northern Ireland (CONI) asked a new question to attempt to achieve a more accurate depiction of the balance of the mainly unionist Protestant and mainly nationalist Catholic communities across Northern ...
Today, the vast majority of Ulster Protestants live in Northern Ireland, which was created in 1921 to have an Ulster Protestant majority, and in the east of County Donegal. Politically, most are unionists, who have an Ulster British identity and want Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom.
In Northern Ireland respondents were given a list of options (including British, Irish, and Northern Irish) from which they could choose as many as they wanted. Irish national identity was numerically in a majority in two districts, Derry and Newry, where 55.03% and 52.09% respectively consider themselves as having an Irish national identity. [1]
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 Small Town ...
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]
Dungannon (from Irish Dún Geanainn, meaning 'Geanann's fort', pronounced [d̪ˠuːn̪ˠ ˈɟan̪ˠən̪ˠ]) [1] is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 16,282 at the 2021 Census. [2]
89.34% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion and 9.26% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion; 11.17% indicated that they had a British national identity, 55.58% had an Irish national identity and 30.58% had a Northern Irish national identity*.
Claudy (from Irish Clóidigh, meaning 'the one who washes/the strong-flowing one') [2] is a village and townland (of 1,154 acres) in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.It lies in the Faughan Valley, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Derry, where the River Glenrandal joins the River Faughan.