Moneyreagh or Moneyrea () is a small village and townland in

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

, Northern Ireland. It is just off the main road between Belfast and Ballygowan. It is situated in the civil parish of Comber and the historic barony of

Castlereagh Lower Castlereagh Lower (named after the former barony of Castlereagh) is a historic barony in County Down, Northern Ireland. It was created by 1841 with the division of Castlereagh into two. The barony roughly matches the former Gaelic territory of '' ...

. It had a population of 1,384 people in the 2011 Census.

History

On the 26 May 1942 a Royal Air Force,

Bristol Beaufighter The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter (often called the Beau) is a British multi-role aircraft developed during the Second World War by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was originally conceived as a heavy fighter variant of the Bristol Beaufort ...

(X7573) crashed near village shortly after taking off from

RAF Ballyhalbert Royal Air Force Ballyhalbert or more simply RAF Ballyhalbert is a former Royal Air Force station at Ballyhalbert on the Ards Peninsula, County Down, Northern Ireland RAF Kirkistown was a satellite to the larger Ballyhalbert. Construction b ...

, killing all Three crew.

Demography

2011 Census

On Census Day, 27 March 2011, the usual resident of the Moneyreagh Settlement was 1,384 (519 households). Text was copied from this source, which is available under a
Open Government Licence v3.0
© Crown copyright. * 17.92% were aged under 16 years and 13.37% were aged 65 and over * 50.29% of the usually resident population were male and 49.71% were female * 44 was the average (median) age of the population * 99.71% were from the white (including Irish Traveller) ethnic group * 2.24% belong to or were brought up as Catholic * 90.39% belong to or were brought as 'Protestant and other Christian (including Christian related)' religion * 83.31% indicated that they had a British national identity, 2.53% had an Irish national identity and 29.77% had a Northern Irish national identity. Respondents could indicate more than one national identity.

Language

* 1.04% had some knowledge of the Irish Language * 9.07% had some knowledge of the Ulster Scots Language * 0.30% did not have English as their first language

Education

Primary

Moneyreagh has one primary school locally, seen at the top of the table below. Other schools nearby have been added also.

Secondary

Moneyreagh does not have any secondary schools locally. Those located nearby (<10 mi (16 km) away) are shown in the table below:

Notable People

Golfer,

Rory McIlroy Rory Daniel McIlroy (born 4 May 1989) is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who is a member of both the European and PGA Tours. He is the current world number one in the Official World Golf Ranking, and has spent over 100 weeks in tha ...

, lived near the village until March 2013.

Transport

Moneyreagh is connected to Belfast City Centre by the 12/512 bus route ran by Translink. This route also connects Moneyreagh to the neighbouring small town of Ballygowan.

References

Notes

For consistency, this article uses the current spelling of MONEYREAGH. As Moneyreagh is in the United Kingdom, which uses imperial units for distance, all distances read in miles first. Villages in County Down Townlands of County Down Civil parish of Comber Aviation accidents and incidents locations in Northern Ireland {{Down-geo-stub