Newtownhamilton

14°COvercast

• Today: 15° / 7° · 36% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 11° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:47Sunset 20:00

13h 13m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

14US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Armagh Lonsdale Road, United Kingdom

17 food businesses within 2 miles

• 14 rated 4–5 ★ (10 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)

Dáire Hughes

Sinn Féin

Newry and Armagh

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 Newry and Armagh:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s291 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership156 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test131 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Review discharge of mental health patients112 local signatures · 14,552 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth90 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

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

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  Newtownhamilton · 0.0 km

  Newtownhamilton is a small village and civil parish in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. 10 miles (16 km) west of Newry, it lies predominantly within Tullyvallan townland in the area known as South Armagh.

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  Tullyvallen massacre · 3.2 km

  The Tullyvallen massacre took place on 1 September 1975, when Irish republican gunmen attacked an Orange Order meeting hall at Tullyvallen, near Newtownhamilton in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The Orange Order is…

• Walker's Bar attack · 3.2 km

  The Walker's Bar attack, also known as the Store Bar shooting, was a mass shooting which took place on 25 June 1976 at Walker's Bar on Lyle Hill Road in Templepatrick, County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It was carried…

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  Ballymoyer · 4.1 km

  Ballymoyer or Ballymyre is a civil parish in the historic barony of Fews Upper, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, 3 miles north-east of Newtownhamilton.

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  Ballymoyer House · 4.8 km

  Ballymoyer House, now demolished, was an 18th-century country house in the townland of Ballintemple in the civil parish of Ballymoyer, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The house stood in a 7000-acre demesne approximat…

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  Newry and Armagh (Assembly constituency) · 5.5 km

  Newry and Armagh is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)