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Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 9 Dec 2013

A Castlereagh Borough Council sign on the Comber Road, on the inward side of the New Line. Castlereagh district will cease to exist after the reorganisation of local government. To quote from the Council’s website “In April 2015, as part of the reform of local government in Northern Ireland (previously known as the Review of Public Administration), the majority of households in Castlereagh will merge with Lisburn City Council with 38% of the population of Castlereagh and 21% of Lisburn moving to the new Belfast City Council.” My reading of the map is that the area on the left will be part of the Ballyhanwood ward and the right the Enler ward of the new Lisburn and Castlereagh district. The original “Castlereagh” was a barony http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barony_(Ireland) – later divided into Castlereagh Upper and Lower. This link http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/local_history/geographical_index/baronies_.htm is to a map of the NI baronies. Their names survive for conveyancing and registration of title.

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