Whiteabbey
Whiteabbey is a townland in Newtownabbey, north of Belfast in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The original village of Whiteabbey stood at the foot of the Three Mile Water, on the shore of Belfast Lough.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wilson Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: settlement in Northern Ireland
- Also known as: “White Abbey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whiteabbey railway station and Whiteabbey Hospital.
Whiteabbey railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Wilson Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whiteabbey Railway Station serves the village of Whiteabbey in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland.
Whiteabbey Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Mckyj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Whiteabbey Hospital is a hospital located close to the village of Whiteabbey, within the town of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. The hospital first opened in 1907 as The Abbey Sanitorium, centred around a country house known as 'The Abbey'.
Jordanstown railway station
Railway station
Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jordanstown railway station serves Jordanstown and the University of Ulster in Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland. A park and ride facility for the station has been proposed to ease congestion on the main Jordanstown Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newtownabbey and Jordanstown.
Newtownabbey
Photo: Pastor Sam, CC BY 3.0.
Newtownabbey is a district just north of Belfast. It's short of tourist sights and facilities, and you'd only come here for business or to attend the university.
Jordanstown
Suburb
Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jordanstown is a townland and electoral ward in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is within the urban area of Newtownabbey and the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council area.
Holywood
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Holywood is a town five miles northeast of Belfast. It's historically in County Down, but since 2015 has been governed as part of Ards and North Down District, along with Bangor and Newtownards.
Whiteabbey
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.67221° or 54° 40′ 20″ northLongitude
-5.9012° or 5° 54′ 4″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
9C6PM3CX+VGOpenStreetMap ID
node 267762732OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Whiteabbey” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “White Abbey”
- Irish: “An Mhainistir Fhionn”
- Irish: “Mainistir Fhionn”
- Turkish: “Whiteabbey”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Whiteabbey”. Photo: Wilson Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0.