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Glenavy

Glenavy
Glenavy RC Church - geograph.org.uk - 758228.jpg
Glenavy Catholic church
Glenavy is located in Northern Ireland
Glenavy
Glenavy
Glenavy shown within Northern Ireland
Population 5,697 (2011)
Irish grid reference J154729
• Belfast 13 mi (21 km)
District
County
Country Northern Ireland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CRUMLIN
Postcode district BT29
Dialling code 028, +44 28
EU Parliament Northern Ireland
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Antrim
54°35′31″N 6°12′50″W / 54.592°N 6.214°W / 54.592; -6.214Coordinates: 54°35′31″N 6°12′50″W / 54.592°N 6.214°W / 54.592; -6.214

This article refers to the village in Northern Ireland. For the town in New Zealand, see Glenavy, New Zealand

Glenavy (from Irish: Lann Abhaigh) is a village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, 17 kilometres north west of Lisburn on the banks of the Glenavy River. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 5,697 people. In early documents it was known as Lenavy.

The population of Glenavy ward on census day (27 March 2011) was 5,697 people. Of these:

Glenavy railway station was opened on 13 November 1871, but is no longer operational.

Glenavy has a petrol station, Ballymacrickett Primary School, a garden centre, a youth club, Lily Johnston's public house and restaurant, a hairdressers, a beauty salon, a Chinese take-away, a fish & chip shop, a pharmacy, Little Cricketts Nursery, and a local produce shop, Glenavy Plant Hire and Tyre Service, as well as a kitchen shop. There is also an Orange Hall, a Methodist church, a Church of Ireland chapel, a Roman Catholic church and a Parish hall.

In 2015 Glenavy senior football team won the Antrim Intermediate championship after beating Dunloy in the final.

54°35′N 06°13′W / 54.583°N 6.217°W / 54.583; -6.217


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