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Castlereagh (from Irish An Caisleán Riabhach, meaning 'the grey castle') [ 1] is a townland and former hamlet in the civil parish of Knockbreda, barony of Castlereagh Lower, in County Down, Northern Ireland. [ 1] It is southeast of Belfast and now at the fringe of the city's suburbs. The townland has an area of 415 acres (168 ha).
Castlerea ( / ˌkæsəlˈriː / KASS-əl-REE; Irish: An Caisleán Riabhach, meaning 'brindled castle') is the third largest town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located in the west of the county and had a population of 1,992 at the 2016 census. [1] Roughly translated from Irish, Castlerea is generally thought to mean 'brindled castle ...
Quartered arms of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, KG. Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), usually known as Lord Castlereagh, [1] derived from the courtesy title Viscount Castlereagh [a] (UK: / ˈ k ɑː s əl r eɪ / KAH-səl-ray) by which he was styled from 1796 to 1821, was a British statesman and politician.
Castlereagh (/ ˈ k ɑː s əl r eɪ / KAH-səl-ray) was a local government district with the status of borough in Northern Ireland. It merged with Lisburn City Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council , with a small amount being transferred to Belfast City Council.
The Old Course at St Andrews, also known as the Old Lady or the Grand Old Lady, [ 2][ 3][ 4] is considered the oldest golf course [ 5][ 6] in the world. It is a public course over common land in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland and is held in trust by the St Andrews Links Trust under an act of Parliament. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews ...
50 °F. 566.3 mm. 22.3 in. Gilgandra is a country town in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia, and services the surrounding agricultural area where wheat is grown extensively together with other cereal crops, and sheep and beef cattle are raised. [ 3] Sitting at the junction of the Newell, Oxley and Castlereagh highways, the town is ...
Opened 31 years ago in 1993, while Faldo was still an active player, it was his first design in Europe. Chart Hills has regularly played host to a number of high-profile golf events. It is a European Tour Qualifying School venue and has hosted Ladies European Tour (LET) events, the Ladies English Open ( 2004 – 07) and Ford Golf Classic ( 1995 ...
The Castlereagh–Canning duel was a pistol duel between the British Minister of War Viscount Castlereagh and Foreign Secretary George Canning, which took place on September 21, 1809, at Putney Heath. The reasons for the duel were the rivalry between the two politicians and numerous disagreements between them over the conduct of the war against ...