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Description of Magherafelt

Magherafelt, Irish Machaire Fíolta, town and former district (1973–2015) within the former county of Londonderry, now in Mid Ulster district, central Northern Ireland. Magherafelt town was originally an English-company (Plantation of Ulster) town and is now a marketing centre. Maghera town, 9 miles (14 km) to the northwest, was the birthplace of Charles Thomson (1730–1824), who served as secretary to the First and Second U.S. Continental Congresses (1774–89) and wrote out the Declaration of Independence.

The former Magherafelt district was bounded by the River Bann and Lough (lake) Neagh on the east and by the Sperrin Mountains on the west. It bordered the former districts of Antrim and Ballymena to the east; Coleraine to the north; Limavady, Strabane, and Omagh to the west; and Cookstown to the south. Gently rolling lowlands in the east rise gradually westward to elevations of more than 1,800 feet (550 metres) above sea level in the Sperrin Mountains. The area is largely agricultural; its chief crops include potatoes, barley, flax, and oats. There is salmon fishing along the River Bann, and granite is quarried in the Sperrin Mountains.

History of Magherafelt

Magherafelt has been documented as a town since 1425. An earlier name for the area was Teach Fíolta - ‘Fíolta’s (monastic) house’. This would suggest that there was a monastic settlement here under the leadership of Fíolta. The site of the medieval parish church may be marked by the ruins of a later church and graveyard at the bottom of Broad Street. The Salters Company of London was granted the surrounding lands in South Londonderry in the seventeenth century as part of the Plantation of Ulster. Subsequently, the town began to take on its current shape with a central diamond forming the heart of the town.

Administration

The town had its own Magherafelt District Council. On 1 April 2015, it was merged with Cookstown District Council and Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland becoming Mid-Ulster District Council. Magherafelt's voters choose five of the Mid Ulster District Council's forty representatives. Two members of Sinn Féin, one member of the SDLP, and two members of the Democratic Unionist Party were among the five councillors elected in the 2019 Mid Ulster District Council election. Specifically, it is in the Mid Ulster constituency of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Mid Ulster region (UK Parliament constituency).

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Description of Londonderry

Londonderry, often known as Derry or Irish Doire, is a city and former district in northwest Northern Ireland that is currently included in the Derry City and Strabane district. It has the second highest population of any city in Northern Ireland. The city of Londonderry and its surrounding urban and rural regions were officially integrated in 1969, and as a result of a reform of local administration in the United Kingdom in 1973 (and again in 2015), the area became one of Northern Ireland's 26 districts.

The Irish term doire, which means "oak grove," is whence Derry got its name. In 1613, after King James I handed the city a royal charter, he added the prefix "London" to the name. Both nationalists and unionists commonly refer to the city as Derry, however unionists are more likely to use Londonderry when discussing politics. It is formally known as Londonderry City by the British government. Since 1984, when it was under nationalist rule, the Londonderry City Council has been known as the Derry City Council. A British High Court judge declared in 2007 that only legislation or the Royal prerogative could change the city's name from Londonderry to Derry. The newly reorganized Derry City and Strabane District Council formally requested the name change to Derry from the British government in 2015. Petition drives garnered thousands of signatures, both for and against the name change.

The counties of Northern Ireland, including Londonderry, have not been used by the state for local administration since 1972. Derry and Strabane, Causeway Coast and Glens, and Mid-Ulster are the three districts that rule the area after further revisions in 2015. Aside from its cultural context in All-Ireland sporting and cultural events, it is no longer used for local government and administrative purposes (i.e. Derry GAA).

Derry City Council is home to 57% of Northern Ireland's Catholic population, making it one of just four counties with a Catholic majority (55.56%) since 1981. The purple saxifrage has been designated as the official county flower.

Geography of Londonderry

Sawel Mountain, which sits on the border of County Tyrone, is the county's highest peak at 678 meters (2,224 feet). The Sperrin Mountains, of which Sawel is a portion, tower over the southern section of the county. The county is characterized by the steep cliffs, dune systems, and remarkable beaches of the Atlantic coast in the north; by the valleys of the Bann and Foyle rivers in the east and west; by Ireland's largest lake, Lough Neagh, to the south-east; and by the valleys of the Bann and Foyle rivers in the south.

Derry's 17th-century city walls, the National Trust-owned Plantation estate at Springhill, Mussenden Temple on the Atlantic coast, the dikes, artificial coastlines, and the bird sanctuaries on the eastern shore of Lough Foyle, and the visitor center at Bellaghy Bawn, close to the childhood home of Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney are just some of the notable structures and landscapes found in this county. Old-growth deciduous forests of Banagher and Ness Wood may be found in the county's geographic center, and the Burntollet River flows through these trees and over Northern Ireland's highest waterfalls.

Northern Ireland, UK Description

Northern Ireland is a constituent state of the United Kingdom, located in the island of Ireland's northeastern quadrant, on the western continental periphery commonly referred to as Atlantic Europe. It is the only part of the United Kingdom that is not part of the European Union. Northern Ireland is occasionally referred to as Ulster, despite the fact that it consists of only six of the nine counties that comprised that historic Irish province.

A long history of newcomers and emigrants has shaped Northern Ireland, which has welcomed Celts from Europe's continental shores as well as Vikings, Normans, and Anglo-Saxons. Over the course of the 17th century, thousands of Scottish Presbyterians were forcibly resettled and English military garrisons were established, resulting in the institutionalization of the ethnic, religious, and political divisions that eventually led to violent conflict.

Since the 1920s, when Northern Ireland was officially separated from the Republic of Ireland, the region has been wracked by sectarian violence. It doesn't matter how serious Northern Ireland's peacemaking efforts have been since the mid-1990s; those who are familiar with the shibboleths and cultural codes that define its peoples are the best equipped to navigate the region, dictating which football (soccer) team to root for, which whiskey to sip, and which song to sing. An old graffito once scrawled on the walls of Belfast captures the complexities of those political markers: "If you are not confused, you do not understand the situation." Outsiders are increasingly familiar with Northern Ireland because of its contributions to world culture, including poetry by Seamus Heaney and music by Van Morrison. However, Northern Ireland's political fortunes have improved since then, and with that improvement has come a flourishing of the arts.

Located in Northern Ireland's capital, Belfast, a modern city whose historic core was severely damaged by aerial bombardment during World War II. Belfast, once known for its shipyards (where the Titanic was built), has seen a significant reduction in the size of its industrial base. Aesthetically, the city is similar to Northern Ireland's other major cities, Londonderry (also known as Derry locally and historically) and Armagh, in that it is adorned with parks and orderly residential neighborhoods. It is even more beautiful in Northern Ireland's countryside: lush, fertile, and dotted with rivers and lakes. These features, as well as the country's folk and artistic traditions, have found poetic expression in the country's folk and artistic traditions.

Geographical Description of Northern Ireland

On the island of Ireland, Northern Ireland occupies approximately one-sixth of the total land area. It is separated from Scotland, which is also a part of the United Kingdom, on the east by the narrow North Channel, which is only 13 miles (21 kilometers) wide at one point and forms a natural border with the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea separates Northern Ireland from England and Wales on the east and southeast, respectively, and the Atlantic Ocean separates it from the rest of the world on the north. The Republic of Ireland forms the southern and western borders of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In terms of topography, Northern Ireland can be thought of as a saucer with its center at Lough (lake) Neagh, and the highlands can be considered the inverted rim of that saucer. On the rim of the saucer, five of Ireland's six historic counties—Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone and Londonderry—converge to form the lake, and each has its own highland region that extends from its shores. Towards the north and east, Antrim's mountains (which are actually a plateau) rise steeply from the sea and slope upward. It reaches an elevation of 1,817 feet (554 bmetres) at Trostan, with the plateau terminating in an impressive basalt and chalk cliff coastline, broken by a series of glaciated valleys known as glens and facing Scotland, but otherwise isolated from the remainder of Northern Ireland. Slieve Croob (which rises to 1,745 feet (532 metres) in the southeast) and the Mourne Mountains (which reach an elevation of 2,789 feet (850 metres) at Slieve Donard (Northern Ireland's highest point) are all within two miles (3 kilometers) of each other in the southwest. In the southeast, the rounded landscape of drumlins—smooth, elongated mounds left by the final Pleistocene glaciation' South of Carlingford Lough, this magnificent landscape of granite peaks is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean.

The scenery is gentler south of Lough Neagh, but the land rises to a height of 1,886 feet (575 metres) in Slieve Gullion, near the Irish border, where the land rises to 1,886 feet (575 metres). West of Lough Neagh, the land gently rises to the more rounded Sperrin Mountains; Sawel, at 2,224 feet (678 metres), is the highest of several 2,000-foot-plus hills in the area; Sawel is also the highest point in the area (610 metres). Located in the far southwest, historically known as County Fermanagh, the region is geographically centered on the basin of Lough Erne, in a drumlin-strewn area surrounded by hills rising to more than 1,000 feet (300 metres) in elevation.

The Economy of Northern Ireland

Because of its close ties to the rest of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland's economy is inextricably intertwined with it. Trade between Northern Ireland and its closest neighbor, the Republic of Ireland, has grown significantly in recent years despite the fact that economic ties between the two countries have historically been underdeveloped. Northern Ireland's economy has long been underperforming in comparison to the rest of the United Kingdom, owing largely to political and social unrest on the island of Ireland. The International Fund for Ireland was established in the 1980s by the governments of the United Kingdom and Ireland to aid in the development of the country's economy. Providing economic assistance to the entire island, with a particular emphasis on Northern Ireland, the fund's mission is to alleviate poverty. The European Union also provides financial assistance to the Northern Ireland government and its citizens.