Bessbrook

Bessbrook is a village in , Northern Ireland. It lies about three miles northwest of and near the Newry bypass on the main A1 - road and Belfast-Dublin railway line.
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Photo: HENRY CLARK, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Newry railway station and St Paul’s High School, Bessbrook.

Railway station
Photo: BrianG, Public domain.
serves the city of and the village of Bessbrook in Northern Ireland. The station is located in the northwest of Newry, on the Dublin-Belfast line close to the Craigmore Viaduct.

School
St. Paul's High School, Bessbrook is an all-ability, co-educational English-Medium secondary school located on the outskirts of Bessbrook near , .

Bridge
Photo: National Library of Ireland on The Commons, No restrictions.
Macneill's Egyptian Arch is a railway bridge in , . Construction was completed in 1851 for the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Company and was the result of collaboration between engineer Sir John Macneill and constructor William Dargan.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Camlough and Mullaghglass.

Village
Photo: Ron Murray, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village west of in , . The village is named after a lake, known as the Cam Lough. South of the village is Mountain, part of the Ring of Gullion which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Hamlet
is a small and townland north of in , . It was named after the nearby townland of , although the village itself is within the townland of Latt.

Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town straddling the boundary between and in Northern Ireland, five miles north of the border with the Republic of Ireland.

Bessbrook

Latitude
54.19418° or 54° 11′ 39″ north
Longitude
-6.39656° or 6° 23′ 48″ west
Population
3,000
Elevation
282 feet (86 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB ZSS
Open location code
9C6M5JV3+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 267762585
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2655813
Wiki­data ID
Q2022153
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Bessbrook” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bessbrook”
  • Basque: “Bessbrook”
  • Chinese: “貝斯布魯克”
  • Dutch: “Bessbrook”
  • French: “Bessbrook”
  • Irish: “An Sruthán”
  • Malay: “Bessbrook”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bessbrook”
  • Pali: “बेस्स्ब्रूक”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Sruthán”
  • Spanish: “Bessbrook”
  • Urdu: “بیس بروک”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Pond Field Play Park and Bessbrook Pond Field.

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