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Newtownards (Irishman New Town ) is a city of Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) located in Down county on the north shore of the Strangford Lough in the heart of the Ards peninsula sixteen kilometers east of Belfast. Newtonards is the largest city in Ards Borough Council. According to the 2001 census, its population amounts to 27,821 inhabitants. Approximately 86% of the population is Protestant against 9% Catholics [ first ] .   In 545, Finnian de Moville founded a monastery near what is now Newtonards. He names it Movilla ( Magh Bile , “The plain of the sacred tree,” in Irish) which suggests that the site was previously a sacred pagan site. This monastery is destroyed by a Viking raid some time after 824. The monks regroup with those of Bangor and found a monastery of the Order of Augustins. This new monastery is razed by Hugh O’Neill. The small agglomeration known then under the name of Movilla disappears. The region around is then known as Ballylisnevin, the city of the Fort de la family de Nevin. The Normans found a city around 1226 and name it Nove would they blathewyc According to the name of an ancient Irish territory and establish a Dominican priory. The city declined and around 1400, while the region was controlled by the O\u2019Neill clan, the city is abandoned. In 1605, Hugh Montgomery, first viscount of the Great Ardes [ 2 ] receives in donation the lands of the region and decides to rebuild what is then called Newtown , name later extended in Newtownards . Official documents show that the city was created in 1606. Montgomery built a residence in the ruins of the old priory from which only one tower remains. It brought in a number of Scottish planters and the city grows quickly. Because of the shallow depth of the STRANGFORD LOUGH, the city has never developed port activity. The goods are delivered to Donaghadee, a close city, located on the Irish Sea. Instead, it quickly became a shopping center, developing an attractive market with Market House in 1770 construction on Conway Square. This weekly market is still active at the start of XXI It is century. The June 10, 1798 , on the morning of Pike Sunday, during the Irish rebellion of 1798, a strength composed of the United Irish, mainly from Bangor, Donaghadee, Greyabbey and Ballywalter attempts to occupy the city of Newtownnards. They are greeted with muskets by the inhabitants of the city entrenched in Market House and are repulsed. Newtownnards is connected to Belfast by a railway via Commer and Dundonald in 1850. The track was extended to Donaghadee in 1861. The same year the population of the city reached 9,500. as the economy of the city is moreover In addition linked to Belfast, the city continues to thrive and becomes a dormitory city with daily pendulum migration to Belfast. The population of Newtownnards reached 13,100 inhabitants in 1961 and double to reach 27,800 before the end of the century. During the North Irish conflict, Newtownnards was the target of a car trapped the July 5, 1993 In front of the Roma\u2019s Bar in Regent Street. The attack claimed by provisional IRA made no victims despite the 700 kilos of explosive used. With a population between 18,000 and 75,000 inhabitants, Newtownnards is classified among the “major Irish north cities” by the North Irish-Irish of Statistics and Research Agency. The strong population of its 27,821 inhabitants is cut as follows [ 3 ] : 22.2% under 16 and 51.7% over 60 years of age. 8.4% declared himself Catholic and 85.9% Protestant 3.6% of the population between 16 and 74 years old is unemployed  The city of Newtownnards is dominated by the Scrabo Tower, 41 meters high. She was erected in tribute to Charles Stewart Third Marquis in Londonderry in recognition of her action during the great famine of 1845-1849. It is now open to the public and offers a historic museum in the region. [ modifier | Modifier and code ] The main club of the city is the Ards FC which plays in the Irish football championship. Founded in 1902, he played his home games at the Dixon Park in Balllyclare. Atds was once a champion of Northern Ireland in 1958 and won the Northern Football Irish Cup four times. Rugby to xv [ modifier | Modifier and code ] Ards Rugby Football Club Play at Lansdowne Road in the south of the city. The club plays in the Irish third division. Several Irish international players and members of the British lions come from the club: Blair Mayne, Phil Matthews and Nigel Carr. Cricket [ modifier | Modifier and code ] Ards Cricket Club Play in the first division of Northern Ireland. The club’s field is the Londonderry Park. However, the club plays in the shadow of its two big neighbors North Down and Bangor who both play in the first division. Sport automobile [ modifier | Modifier and code ] Between 1928 and 1936, the Rac Tourist Trophy took place on the roads around the city and in the county of Down. It was at the time the biggest sporting event in Northern Ireland, welcoming up to 250,000 spectators.   "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/all2en\/wiki32\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/all2en\/wiki32\/newtownards-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Newtownards \u2014 Wikipedia"}}]}]