Cloghy

Cloghy is a settlement in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. It has one school, one supermarket, and two restaurants and cafés. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Cloghy area — all from official UK open data.

Council: Ards and North Down
County: Ards and North Down

Northern Ireland isn’t covered by some Great Britain data sources, so street crime, energy ratings, NHS services, schools, council tax, care ratings, rents, affordability, life expectancy and neighbourhood deprivation aren’t shown here. House prices, weather, air quality, food hygiene, fuel, your MP, council control, petitions and notable places do apply.

Weather

14°COvercast

Today: 17° / 13° · 65% rain
Tomorrow: 15° / 11° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:38Sunset 20:01

13h 22m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Belfast Centre, United Kingdom

Food hygiene

10 food businesses within 2 miles

10 rated 4–5 ★ (10 top)
0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Buses & trains

0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

House prices

House-price data isn’t available for this area.

EV charging

2 charging locations within ~8 km

Fastest nearby: 22 kW
Nearest: Castle Street (6.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Your MP

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party

Strangford

Recent votes:

AyeRepresentation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 67
AyeRepresentation of the People Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 65
NoDraft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots
NoDraft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

No overall control

DUP 14
Alli 12
UUP 8
SDLP 1
Oth 5

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

Schools1
Supermarkets1
Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

5,870 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

Local economy

2.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,420 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Wellbeing

Life satisfaction7.8
Feeling worthwhile8.0
Happiness yesterday7.7
Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Strangford:

Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership261 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
Do not ban social media for under 16s259 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings174 local signatures · 11,744 nationwide
Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office172 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test153 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

Notable places nearby

Cloughey Lifeboat Station · 0.0 km
Cloughey Lifeboat Station was located on Manse Road, in Cloghy (Cloughey), a small village at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, in County Down, situated midway between Ballywalter, and the entrance to Strangford…
Cloghy · 1.6 km
Cloghy, also spelt Cloughy or Cloughey, is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the east coast of the Ards Peninsula, in the Ards and North Down Borough. It had a population of 1,360 people in…
White House, County Down · 1.6 km
The White House is a ruined 17th century dwelling house at Ballyspurge, near Cloghy, County Down, Northern Ireland on the Ards Peninsula. It is situated about one mile (1.2 km) south-east of Cloghy, overlooking Slane…
Kirkistown Castle · 1.9 km
Kirkistown Castle is a tower house situated near Cloghy, County Down, Northern Ireland.
RAF Kirkistown · 3.2 km
Royal Air Force Kirkistown or more simply RAF Kirkistown is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located 6.3 miles (10.1 km) of Ballyhalbert, County Down, Northern Ireland.
Kirkistown Circuit · 3.2 km
Kirkistown Motor Racing Circuit is a permanent motorsport circuit located between the villages of Kirkistown and Portavogie, on the Ards Peninsula of County Down in Northern Ireland.