Ballyhackamore

Ballyhackamore
  • Irish: Baile an Chacamair
Ballyhackamore is located in County Down
Ballyhackamore
Ballyhackamore
Location within County Down
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBelfast
Postcode districtBT4 and BT5
Dialling code028
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54°35′42″N 5°52′05″W / 54.595°N 5.868°W / 54.595; -5.868Coordinates: 54°35′42″N 5°52′05″W / 54.595°N 5.868°W / 54.595; -5.868

Ballyhackamore (Irish: Baile an Chacamair, meaning 'townland of the slob land or mud flat')[1] is a townland in County Down, Northern Ireland, it is a suburb of Belfast located on the Upper Newtownards Road. It is also a ward in the UK Parliamentary constituency of East Belfast.

The Sunday Times named Ballyhackamore the Brunch Capital of Belfast in a 2018 article on the Best Places to live in Britain. The neighbourhood is the location of several restaurants and cafés as well as a range of local and national shops.[2][3]

Transport

Ballyhackamore is served by the Translink Glider G1 service. In addition Metro and Ulsterbus services stop here.[4]

Places of note

Notable people

In popular culture

  • Ballyhackamore – "Town of the big horses”, an NVTV television programme
  • Cyprus Avenue, a Van Morrison song

References

  1. ^ "Place Names NI - Home". www.placenamesni.org.
  2. ^ "Five Northern Ireland Locations Named Among the Sunday Times Best Places to Live 2018". lovebelfast.co.uk. 16 March 2018.
  3. ^ "The best place to live in the UK in 2018". theweek.co.uk.
  4. ^ "Translink". www.translink.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Cyprus Avenue Conservation Area | Planning Portal". www.planningni.gov.uk. 9 November 2006.
  6. ^ "People thought Gemma Garrett looked great as Miss GB, but she was 'binge drinking, going on crash diets and so unhealthy'". Belfast Telegraph.
  7. ^ Smith, Ryan (28 March 2017). "Which Belfast schools did these celebrities go to?". belfastlive. Retrieved 6 July 2018.

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