Newry

City in counties Armagh and Down, Northern Ireland; population (2001) 20,900. It is situated at the head of Carlingford Lough, 53 km/33 mi southwest of Belfast. It manufactures products for veterinary care and also textiles and electrical goods, and has food and drink processing. An important seaport since medieval times, Newry was connected with Lough Neagh by canals in the 18th century; the first inland canal constructed in Ireland and the UK was at Newry. The canals are now used for angling.

Newry was made a city in 2002 after winning a national contest to mark the golden jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.

Nothing remains of the Cistercian abbey founded here in 1153 by Maurice MacLoughlin, King of Ireland, and the castle built by de Courcy in 1177. In the 16th century the confiscated lands of Newry were granted to Nicholas Bagenal and the Protestant St Patrick's church includes a tower he built in 1578.

Patrick Brontë, or Prunty (1777–1861), father of the English novelists Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë, was born in Ballynaskeagh, 24 km/15 mi from Newry.