Magherasaul

11°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 16° / 8° · 44% rain
• Tomorrow: 15° / 7° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:42Sunset 20:00

13h 18m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

26US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Lisburn Dunmurry Seymour Hill, United Kingdom

13 food businesses within 2 miles

• 11 rated 4–5 ★ (11 top)
• 1 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£220,572 average▲ 12.8% YoY

Across Newry, Mourne and Down · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

10 charging locations within ~8 km

• 4 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 100 kW
• Nearest: French's Cafe & Bistro (3.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Chris Hazzard

Sinn Féin

South Down

Source: UK Parliament

No overall control

• SF 20
• DUP 5
• Alli 4
• UUP 1
• SDLP 8
• Oth 3

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

10,705 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

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

£21,824 disposable income per head (2024)

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

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.8
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in South Down:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s266 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership188 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test113 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Reduce Vehicle Excise Duty by 50% for vehicles aged 20 to 39 years112 local signatures · 54,314 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth103 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

• Aghlisnafin · 1.3 km

  Aghlisnafin is a rural townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It has an area of 843.82 acres (3.42 km2). It is situated in the civil parish of Kilmegan and the historic barony of Lecale Upper, located 2.3 miles no…

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  Ballybannan · 1.9 km

  Ballybannon is a small townland on the outskirts of the village of Annsborough in County Down, Northern Ireland. Ballybannon townland, which is approximately 562 acres (2.27 km2) in area, lies within the civil parish…

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  Dundrum Castle · 2.1 km

  Dundrum Castle, a ruin standing over the town of Dundrum, County Down, Northern Ireland. It was constructed by John de Courcy, sometime near the beginning of the 13th century, following his invasion of Ulster. The cas…

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  Annsborough · 2.5 km

  Annsborough is a village in County Down which is one of the main residential areas in Castlewellan, Northern Ireland. It is situated on the A25 road between Downpatrick and Newry, about 0.8 kilometres to the east of C…

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  Castlewellan railway station · 2.6 km

  Castlewellan railway station was on the Great Northern Railway (Ireland). It was located in the village of Castlewellan.

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  Castlewellan · 2.8 km

  Castlewellan is a small historic market town in County Down, in the south-east of Northern Ireland close to the Irish Sea. It is beside Castlewellan Lake and Slievenaslat mountain, 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Downpa…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)