Shankill Road, West Belfast
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Shankill Road, West Belfast
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 26 May 2017
The Shankill Road (from Irish: Seanchill, meaning "old church") is one of the main roads leading through west Belfast. It stretches westwards for about 1½ miles from central Belfast running through the working-class, predominantly loyalist, area known as the Shankill which was a centre for loyalist paramilitarism during the Troubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles in the late twentieth century. The road is lined, to an extent, by shops. The residents live in the many streets which branch off the main road.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.603983
Longitude
-5.946605