Ballymena

Ballymena is a town in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom. The actor Liam Neeson[4] and the politician and church minister Ian Paisley used to live in the town.

Ballymena
  • [Bellamaina,[1] Bellamena[2]
    or Seiven Tours[3]] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)
  • Irish: an Baile Meánach

Ballymena town hall
Population28,717 (2001 Census)
Irish grid referenceD1003
• Belfast28 miles (45 km) SE
District
  • Ballymena
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBALLYMENA
Postcode districtBT42
BT43
BT44
Dialling code028
PoliceNorthern Ireland
FireNorthern Ireland
AmbulanceNorthern Ireland
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
  • North Antrim
Websitehttp://www.ballymena.gov.uk
Ballymena signal box
Ballymena railway bridge crossing the Galgorm road with a brick building to the right which is sadly no longer with us
Old train station at Ballymena
New Ballymena train station

Population facts

On 29 April 2001 the United Kingdom government had a census and found that there were 28,717 people living in Ballymena. They also found that:

  • 21.6% of people living in Ballymena were over 16 years old and 19.6% were over 60 years old
  • 47.5% were male and 52.5% were female
  • 24.2% were from a Roman Catholic background and 72.2% were from a Protestant background.
  • 3.9% of people aged from 16 to 74 had no job.[5]

References
  1. "NMSC annual report 2002 – Ulster-Scots" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-29. Retrieved 2012-12-27.
  2. Carrick Castle – Ulster-Scots NI Dept of the Environment.
  3. The Online Scots Dictionary Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 24 August 2012.
  4. The Guardian Film website.
  5. Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service website
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