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Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, from Belfast and from Dublin. It had a population of 29,946 in 2011. Newry straddles counties Armagh and Down.Newry was founded in 1144 alongside a Cistercian monastery, although there are references to earlier settlements in the area, and is one of Ireland's oldest towns. The city is an entry to the "Gap of the North", close to the border with the Republic of Ireland. It grew as a market town and a garrison and became a port in 1742, when it was linked to Lough Neagh by the first summit-level canal built in Ireland or Great Britain. In 2002, as part of Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee celebrations, Newry was granted city status along with Lisburn.NameThe name Newry is an anglicization of An Iúraigh, an oblique form of An Iúrach, which means "the grove of yew trees".The modern Irish name for Newry is An tIúr, which means "the yew tree". An tIúr is an shortening of Iúr Cinn Trá, "yew tree at the head of the strand", which was formerly the most common Irish name for Newry. This relates to an apocryphal story that Saint Patrick planted a yew tree there in the 5th century.Our United Kingdom trip site allows you to plan your trip to Newry and a wealth of other destinations big and small.
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