Millisle
Sign in to saveMillisle or Mill Isle (from Scots mill + isle, meaning "the meadow of the mill") is a village on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is about south of Donaghadee. It is situated in the townlands of Ballymacruise () and Ballycopeland (), the civil parish of Donaghadee and the historic barony of Ards Lower. It had a population of 2,318 people in the 2011 Census.
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Place details
- Locality
- Millisle
- Region
- Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann
- Country
- United Kingdom
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Millisle
- UK place.irish_name
- Oileán an Mhuilinn
- UK place.static_image_name
- Millisle - the main street - geograph.org.uk - 223032.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Millisle Main Street, August 2006
- UK place.map_type
- Northern Ireland
- UK place.label_position
- none
- UK place.population
- 2,318
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011 Census)
- UK place.unitary_northern_ireland
- Ards and North Down Borough
- UK place.lieutenancy_northern_ireland
- County Down
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- North Down
- UK place.country
- Northern Ireland
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Ards
- Population
- +2318
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.millisle.org
- Image
- Millisle - the main street - geograph.org.uk - 223032.jpg
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- P7959
- County Down
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Population
- History
- Places of interest
- Sport
- See also
- References
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Millisle or Mill Isle (from Scots mill + isle, meaning "the meadow of the mill") is a village on the Ards Peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is about south of Donaghadee. It is situated in the townlands of Ballymacruise () and Ballycopeland (), the civil parish of Donaghadee and the historic barony of Ards Lower. It had a population of 2,318 people in the 2011 Census.
==Etymology== The name Millisle is possibly derived which was referenced in the seventeenth century. Alternatively it may have been borrowed by the Scottish settlers to the area from the hamlet of Millisle in Wigtownshire.