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Newry, Mourne and Down

district, Northern Ireland
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Newry, Mourne and Down, district, southeastern Northern Ireland. It is bounded to the northeast by the Ards and North Down district and Strangford Lough, to the east by the Irish Sea, to the south and west by the republic of Ireland, to the northwest and west by the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon district, and to the northwest by the Lisburn and Castlereagh City district. The district’s administrative body, the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, meets in Downpatrick. Newry, Mourne and Down was created in 2015 by the merger of the districts of Down and Newry and Mourne and the acquisition of the wards of Ballyward and Castlewellan from Banbridge district. Pop. (2011) 171,533.

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