Annsborough is a small village in

County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

which is one of the main residential areas in

Castlewellan Castlewellan () is a small town in County Down, in the south-east of Northern Ireland close to the Irish Sea. It is beside Castlewellan Lake and Slievenaslat mountain, southwest of Downpatrick. It lies between the Mourne Mountains and Slieve C ...

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. It is situated on the A25 road between

Downpatrick Downpatrick () is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the Lecale peninsula, about south of Belfast. In the Middle Ages, it was the capital of the Dál Fiatach, the main ruling dynasty of Ulaid. Its cathedral is said to be the bu ...

and

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, about 0.8 kilometres to the east of

and 17 kilometres to the south west of Downpatrick. It had a population of 593 in the 2001 Census. The village is situated within the Mourne

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History

Annsborough Primary School first opened in 1835, making it one of the oldest functional schools in the country. The school officially became integrated in 1997, after many years of unofficial integrated education.

Culture

The village is the home of the Annsborough Pipe Band. Currently competing in Grade 3A of the

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, the band has won three World Championships in 2004, 2005 and 2015. Their Drum Corps were also crowned as World Champions in 2007 and 2015.

Demography

Annsborough is classified as a small village or hamlet by the

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(NISRA) (i.e. with population of less than 1,000). On Census Day (29 April 2001) there were 593 people living in Annsborough. Of these: *29.4% were aged under 16 years and 13.6% were aged 60 and over *48.7% of the population were male and 51.3% were female *93.6% were from a

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background and 5.1% were from a

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background *5.8% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed

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Annsborough Mill
{{authority control Villages in County Down

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