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Shipping Containers for sale in Newry Northern Ireland

Estimated Population: 27,433

Newry was founded in 1144 alongside a Cistercian monastery. It grew as a market town and a garrison and became a port in 1742 when it was linked to Lough Neagh by the first canal in the British Isles. The name of the city comes from the original Irish Iúr Chinn Trá (in older spelling, Iubhar Chinn Trágha), which translates as “the yew at the head of the strand”, which relates to an apocryphal story that Saint Patrick planted a yew tree there in the fifth century.

The English version of the name of the city comes from the original Irish Iúr Chinn Trá (in older spelling, Iubhar Chinn Trábha), which translates as “the yew at the head of the strand”, which relates to an apocryphal story that Saint Patrick planted a yew tree there in the 5th century. In modern Irish, the full name of the town is rarely used; instead it is abbreviated to An tIúr

The town was established in 1144 with the building of a monastery, although there is strong evidence of continual human habitation in the area from 8th century. The monastery only lasted until 1162, when it was burned to the ground, and later replaced by a cistercian monastery. This monastery itself was later converted to a collegiate church in 1543, before being surrendered to the crown in 1548.

Shipping Containers for sale in Newry Northern Ireland