Limavady

Limavady ( lɪməvædi; Irish: Léim to Mhadaidh; German: "Leap of the Dog" ) is a large market town in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland, and the administrative seat of the district of the same name.

The place

Limavady lies in the north of Northern Ireland's County, about midway between Londonderry to the southwest (27 kilometers away ) and Coleraine in the north- east. In the near Limavady of the 385 m high Binevenagh is as part of the Sperrin Mountains. Classroom Limavady is part of the constituency of East Derry. The population of the town was founded in 2001 with 12,135 people found the Census, of which 41.6 % are Catholics and 56.5 % were Protestant; the unemployment rate ( 16-74 years) was 5.1 %.

Since the mid-20th century Limavady experienced due to the settlement and the development of modern industrial enterprises, as well as a result of the acceptance as a popular place of residence a continuous increase in population, so that the number of inhabitants almost quadrupled 1951-2001.

Music Culture

Limavady was, inter alia, known "discovered" by the game played as Northern Ireland anthem at the Commonwealth Games A Londonderry Air, the mid-19th century by a local with a local fiddle player and was the melody and the song Danny Boy made ​​popular.

Today in Limavady the Danny Boy Festival, the Limavady Jazz and Blues Festival and the Roe Valley Folk Festival will take place.

Personalities

• William Massey (1856-1925), Prime Minister of New Zealand (1912-1925)
• Ruth Kelly ( born 1968 ), British politician ( Labour Party )