Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland
Kilcooley estate
Kilcooley estate in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Kilcooley estate is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Kilcooley estate (From Irish: Cill Chúile) is a housing estate owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on the outskirts of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The residents of the area are predominantly Protestant, and the area has strong links with loyalism.
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Background
History
The name Kilcooley is derived from the Irish name Cill Chúile. Kilcooley Estate was built from the 1960s to the 1980s. Much of the estate was built between 1967 and 1976 to re-house people displaced from inner city areas of Belfast. There is a significant loyalist paramilitary presence in the estate and there has been incidents of public disorder most notably in 2007 when the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) was blamed for instigating riots. Kilcooley estate is situated approximately three miles west of Bangor city centre and is bounded by two major roads, the West Circular Road on the East and the Belfast Road on the West. Kilcooley is the third largest housing estate in Northern Ireland.…
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- Coordinates
- 54.6542, -5.7080
Sources
- wikidata: Q6406673 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Kilcooley estate (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kilcooley estate?
- Kilcooley estate is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6542°, -5.7080°.