Direction signs at the Mountain House Cross Roads
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Direction signs at the Mountain House Cross Roads
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 20 Aug 2019
The B134 bridges a deep ethnic and religious fault line linking as it does, in the north, Markethill - the epitome of a Loyalist town with 80% of its population recorded as having a Protestant background (2011 Census) with, in the south, Forkhill - a Republican stronghold with 94% of its population being of Roman Catholic background. The A25 links Newtownhamilton, formerly a Protestant town, now 62% Catholic with Newry a city with 88.3% of its population having a Catholic background. Some of the worst atrocities of the Northern Ireland troubles occurred within an 8 mile radius of this cross roads.
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54.179884
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