Balloo
Balloo is a suburb in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. Balloo is situated nearby to the suburb Rathgil, as well as near Helens Wood.Places of Interest
Highlights include Clandeboye Park and Bangor Abbey.
Clandeboye Park
Stadium
Clandeboye Park is a football stadium in Bangor, Northern Ireland. It is the home ground of NIFL Premiership side Bangor FC and is intended to be the temporary home of fellow NIFL Championship side and local rivals Ards FC.
Bangor Abbey
Church
Photo: Andrew Muir, CC BY 2.0.
Bangor Abbey was established by Saint Comgall in 558 in Bangor, County Down, Ireland and was famous for its learning and austere rule. It is not to be confused with the slightly older abbey in Wales on the site of Bangor Cathedral.
Glenlola Collegiate School
School
Glenlola Collegiate School is an all-girls' grammar school in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school was founded as a school for girls in approximately 1880.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilcooley estate and Bangor.
Kilcooley estate
Suburb
Kilcooley estate is a housing estate owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on the outskirts of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The residents of the area are predominantly Protestant, and the area has strong links with loyalism.
Bangor
Photo: P.khiao, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bangor is a town on the south shore of Belfast Lough, in County Down. It was a holiday resort from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century but is now chiefly a commuter town for Belfast. In 2021 it had a population of 64,000.
Newtownards
Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newtownards is a town at the head of Strangford Lough, historically in County Down, with a population in 2021 of 29,600. The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer units of governance so since 2015 the town has been part of Ards and North Down "super-district".
Balloo
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.63952° or 54° 38′ 22″ northLongitude
-5.67158° or 5° 40′ 18″ westOpen location code
9C6PJ8QH+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 13955351347OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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