Bleary

Village in County Down, Northern Ireland

Human settlement in Northern Ireland

List of places: UK; Northern Ireland; Down

54°25′23″N 6°20′42″W / 54.423025°N 6.344948°W / 54.423025; -6.344948

Bleary (likely from Irish Bladhraigh)^[1] is a small village and townland in County Down,^[1]^[2] Northern Ireland. It is near the County Armagh border and the settlements of Craigavon, Lurgan and Portadown. In the 2011 Census its population was counted as part of Craigavon.^[3] It lies within the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon area.

History

The Troubles

18 June 1972 - Three British soldiers (Arthur McMillan (aged 37), Ian Mutch (aged 31) and Colin Leslie (aged 26)) were killed in an IRA booby-trap bomb attack. The bomb had been left in a derelict house in Bleary.
27 April 1975 - Loyalists shot dead three people in Bleary Darts Club. See Bleary Darts Club shooting
28 October 1993 - The UVF shot dead two Catholic brothers (Gerrard Cairns, 22, and Rory Cairns, 18) at their home in front of their eleven-year-old sister in Bleary, County Down.

Education

Bleary Primary School ^[4]

Demography

2011 Census

On Census day (27 March 2011) there were 1,009 people living in Bleary.^[5]

51.5% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion and 40.6% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion.
53.6% indicated that they had a British national identity, 20.4% had an Irish national identity, and 32.4% had a Northern Irish national identity.

There were 4,081 people living in the Bleary ward.^[6]

73.1% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion and 19.9% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion.
70.65% indicated that they had a British national identity, 11.43% had an Irish national identity, and 27.17% had a Northern Irish national identity.

References

^ ^a ^b Placenames NI
^ Placenames Database of Ireland
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Bleary Primary School, Craigavon".
^ "NINIS Redirect".
^ "NINIS Redirect".