Blackwatertown

16°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 16° / 7° · 27% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 10° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:47Sunset 20:00

13h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

38US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Armagh Lonsdale Road, United Kingdom

19 food businesses within 2 miles

• 19 rated 4–5 ★ (15 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

6 charging locations within ~8 km

• 2 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 75 kW
• Nearest: Benburb Priory (3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

No overall control

• SF 15
• DUP 13
• Alli 4
• UUP 5
• SDLP 1
• Oth 3

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

10,760 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

5 jobs advertised

e.g. Assistant Accountant, Warehouse Operative, Opertions Manager

Source: Adzuna

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£22,033 disposable income per head (2024)

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

• Life satisfaction7.8
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.7
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.9

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Fermanagh and South Tyrone:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s379 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make seizure training mandatory in all child and vulnerable adult work settings157 local signatures · 11,744 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership155 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test122 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Urgently review & adjust steel import quota & tariff changes - effective 01/0786 local signatures · 10,229 nationwide

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

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  Blackwatertown · 0.4 km

  Blackwatertown is a small village in the north-west of County Armagh in Northern Ireland. It sits on the River Blackwater, in the townland of Lisbofin, at the border with County Tyrone. The village is around 5 miles (…

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  Assault on the Blackwater Fort · 0.6 km

  On 16 February 1595, a Gaelic Irish force assaulted and captured the English-held Blackwater Fort at Blackwatertown in County Armagh. The Irish were led by Art MacBaron O'Neill, brother of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone…

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  Battle of the Yellow Ford · 2.0 km

  The Battle of the Yellow Ford was fought in County Armagh on 14 August 1598, during the Nine Years' War in Ireland. An English army of about 4,000, led by Henry Bagenal, was sent from the Pale to relieve the besieged…

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  Callan River · 2.2 km

  The Callan River is a river in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Rising near Tullnawood lake, it flows in a generally northerly direction, past Darkley, passing within a few miles of Keady town, through Tassagh and on…

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  Aghinlig · 2.7 km

  Aghinlig is a townland of 509 acres in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the civil parish of Loughgall and the historic barony of Armagh.

• Moy Tír Na nÓg GAC · 3.0 km

  Moy Tír na nÓg is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in the Moy, a village in the south of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It fields teams at all age groups in Gaelic football and Ladies' Gaelic football, and i…

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