Talk:County Antrim

message: This is probably more related to all the counties of Northern Ireland/Ireland but there doesn't seem to be a single page for this.  The arms displayed in the Co. Antrim page - are they the arms of the county or are they an invention of the GAA?  I'd like to believe the former, but it seems the GAA are the only group to use them. beano 16:45, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Arms

message: Under religion it states that,  
Presbyterianism is the largest religious denomination, followed by Catholicism and Anglicanism.
However,   considering that most of Antrims population resides in greater Belfast and under Belfasts census section it states that 
# 47.2% were from a Catholic background and 48.6% were from a Protestant background
Could it very well be possible that the largest denomination of Christianity is in fact Catholicisim not Presbyterianism?   
Just throwing that out there,   I could very well be wrong. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cee em bee (talk • contribs) 01:08, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't be too sure. Most of the other big towns (Newtownabbey with about 80k people, Larne, Carrickfergus, Ballymena etc) are all very much predominantly Protestant, although I don't know about individual denominations. Most of the Catholics outside Belfast in Co. Antrim live in rural areas around the Glens and north coast (Ballycastle).  North Antrim, South Antrim and East Antrim also tend to have large majorities voting for unionist parties in elections, for what that's worth. beano 20:48, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion 

message: "Antrim was exposed to the inroads of the Danes, and also of the northern Scots, who ultimately effected permanent settlements.[dubious – discuss]"
(From a Medieval Munster perspective, a fellow Gael from Derry would be a "northern Scot" at least if they were writing in Latin as thats what Scot meant originally.)
Scots and Gaels were the same people at the time of St Columba. (arguibly still at the time of Bruce!) There has been a movement to and fro of people from the earliest period of human habitation, but making a clear distinction between Scots and Gaels at a period of early medieval Gaelic trans-maritime Hiberno-British culture is misleading as it makes it sound as if the Scots were from Britain. they might have been indigenous Gaels to Ulster.  Seamusalba (talk) 16:58, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scots 

message: There is a discussion ongoing about the locator maps for Northern Ireland counties — see here.~Asarlaí 19:46, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northern Ireland county maps 

message: The in-line citation goes to a doc that is only in the Irish language to prove its point. Is this acceptable for the English language wiki? Should we insist on a version that has been translated into English? Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:59, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Or maybe use Google Translate?  Or ask for a section to be translated.  Lots of options really...  --HighKing (talk) 00:52, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The discussion has been brought to WikiProject Ireland. Laurel Lodged (talk) 14:04, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irish Language 

message: Whilst one must be cautious when one speaks about population figures for any of Northern Ireland's counties (because data are no longer collected on a county basis), a relatively reliable estimate can be made using the figures and maps provided by the Ordnance Survey and the figures from the 2011 Census freely available from NISRA.gov.uk. As an overview, many Local Government Areas' boundaries (drawn up in the 1970s) fall into line with the old county structure (eg. Carrickfergus Borough Council area lies entirely within the bounds of County Antrim). Where this is not the case, Electoral Wards prove an invaluable agent to plug the gaps (eg. Lisburn City Council's population is mostly in County Antrim, but a large part of the rural southern Council area is in County Londonderry; Hillsborough is one such electoral ward - Hillsborough is in Co. Down but is administered as part of Lisburn City Council area). Sometimes the electoral ward boundaries were drawn (or in other cases redrawn) in such a way that they are split by counties. In this instance one can use the Census Output Areas (or their new 2011 equivalent: the Small Area which are almost always synonomous with one another) to break up the Electoral Ward into its constituent parts (eg. the Small Area N00002016 (previously known as Census Output Area 95JJ110005) is in County Antrim, but also forms part of Hopefield Electoral Ward, which one of the Electoral Wards of Coleraine Borough Council area which are split between County Antrim and County Londonderry). On the rare occassion that the borders of the Small Area/Census Output Area are not in line with the old County boundaries, I have either chosen or excluded any given area depending on where most of the Small Area lies and/or where most of the population of that given area live (eg. Small Area N00002171 (formerly Census Output Area 95LL010002) is (uniquely) split between Counties Antrim, Down and Armagh, but one can see on NISRA maps that the majority of the population lives in the northern third of the Small Area (in the immediate vicinity of Aghagallon village (including the village's main street and part of a housing development) - the other two counties' sections are far more sparsely populated thoroughly rural areas) on the County Antrim side of the old county boundary). Thus insofar as possible I have only included those statistical areas that lie within the County Boundaries in order to arrive at the figure of 618,108. I must stress that this is only an approximate figure as certain Small Areas have been included in the 618,108 figure which have small amounts of territory outside of the county, and some Small Areas which have portions of themselves within County Antrim have been excluded because most of the Small Area lies in another County. In all, these factors may well even each other out. Nonetheless, the actual figure could be out by a few dozen. If anyone has any queries or suggestions please get in contact. Cuirfear fáilte roimh chomhfhreagras i nGaeilge. Correspondance in Irish is welcomed.
*Local Government Areas included in their entirity:
*Antrim 53428
*Carrickfergus 39114
*Larne 32180
*Newtownabbey 85139
*Moyle 17050
*Ballymena 64044
*Ballymoney 31224
*And parts of the following local government areas:
*Belfast 280962 except the County Down portion thereof (83836)
**Ballyhackamore -5939
**Ballymacarrett -4908
**Ballynafeigh -5928
**Belmont -6165
**Bloomfield -5453
**Cherryvalley -5920
**Island -5014
**Knock -4827
**Orangefield -5619
**Ravenhill -6041
**Rosetta -6564
**Stormont -5548
**Sydenham -4874
**The Mount -5591
**Wookstock -5445
*Lisburn 120165 except the County Down portion thereof (30291)
**Ballymacbrennan -3372 
**Blairis -3375 
**Dromara -4698 
**Drombo -3364 
**Hillhall -2905 
**Hillsborough -3758 
**Maghaberry 
***N00003448 (formerly 95SS210002) -540
***N00003449 (formerly 95SS210003) -431
**Maze -3816 except 
***N00003469 (formerly 95SS230001) 373
**Moira -5139 except
***N00003476 (formerly 95SS240009) 734
*Craigavon: only
**Aghagallon 4931 except the County Armagh and Down portions thereof (3143)
***N00002173 (formerly 95LL010004) -476
***N00002175 (formerly 95LL010005) -742
***N00002176 (formerly 95LL010006) -570
*Coleraine: only (5786)
**Royal Portrush 2032
**Atlantic: only
***N00001948 (formerly 95JJ020001) 216
***N00001950 (formerly 95JJ020003) 230
***N00001955 (formerly 95JJ020009) 285
**Dunluce 1990 except the County Antrim portion thereof
***N00002001 (formerly 95JJ090001) -376
**Hopefield 3770 except the County Antrim portion thereof
***N00002014 (formerly 95JJ110002 & 95JJ110009) -974
***N00002018 (formerly 95JJ110001, 95JJ110003 & 95JJ110010) -1,387
TOTAL: 618108  D.de.loinsigh (talk) 16:27, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A lot of work has obviously gone into this and I commend you for it. However if any of these figures where to used in an article it must include a hatnote/citation stating that these are approximate figures with the possibility for quite a large degree of error. It may be better to wait and see whether some Stormont or another established entity produce a more accurate (maybe more inaccurate) figure with their legion of overpaid researchers. Mabuska (talk) 23:08, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population of County Antrim in the 2011 UK Census 

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