Moira
Moira is a town and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is in the northwest of the county, near the border with counties Antrim and Armagh. The M1 motorway and Belfast–Dublin railway line are nearby. The population was 4,879 at the 2021 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 4,100 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland
- Also known as: “Moira, County Down”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Moira railway station and Irish Baptist College.
Moira railway station
Railway stop
Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Moira railway station serves Moira in County Down, Northern Ireland. Despite the station serving the County Down town, the station itself is located in County Antrim, the neighbouring Lagan Canal being the boundary.
Irish Baptist College
College building
The Irish Baptist College is a Baptist theological college in Moira, Craigavon, Northern Ireland. It is affiliated with the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland. Irish Baptist College is situated 1½ miles east of Moira.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maghaberry and Aghalee.
Maghaberry
Village
Maghaberry or Magaberry is a village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is 9 kilometres west of Lisburn and 4 kilometres north of Moira. Maghaberry is situated 2½ miles northeast of Moira.
Aghalee
Village
Photo: P Flannagan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aghalee is a village, townland and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is three miles from the southeast corner of Lough Neagh on the main road between Lurgan and Antrim and about 13 kilometres west of Lisburn. Aghalee is situated 3 miles northwest of Moira.
Lurgan
Photo: Notafly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lurgan is a town historically in County Armagh in Northern Ireland - those counties are no longer units of government so it's now part of Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District.
Moira
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Lisburn and Castlereagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.47929° or 54° 28′ 46″ northLongitude
-6.23017° or 6° 13′ 49″ westPopulation
4,100Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MOAOpen location code
9C6MFQH9+PWOpenStreetMap ID
node 11626622220OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Moira” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Moira”
- Bulgarian: “Мойра”
- Cebuano: “Moira”
- Dutch: “Moira”
- French: “Moira”
- German: “Moira”
- Irish: “Maigh Rath”
- Italian: “Moira (Down)”
- Italian: “Moira”
- Japanese: “モイラ”
- Malay: “Moira, Daerah Down”
- Malay: “Moira”
- Pali: “मोइरा, काउन्टी डाउन”
- Pali: “मोइरा”
- Persian: “مویرا، شهرستان داون”
- Spanish: “Moira”
- Swedish: “Moira, Nordirland”
- Swedish: “Moira”
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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 “Moira”. Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.