Maydown ( meaning "plain of the stronghold")Placenames NI
is a small village and townland in

County Londonderry County Londonderry ( Ulster-Scots: ''Coontie Lunnonderrie''), also known as County Derry ( ga, Contae Dhoire), is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty two counties of Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster. B ...

, Northern Ireland. It is near

Derry Derry, officially Londonderry (), is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fifth-largest city on the island of Ireland. The name ''Derry'' is an anglicisation of the Old Irish name (modern Irish: ) meaning 'oak grove'. The ...

and

Strathfoyle Strathfoyle (from ga, Srath Feabhail) is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland It is about north east of Derry. It was newly built in different phases between the late 1950s and the early 1960s, with many new recent additions to ...

and is within the Derry and Strabane district. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 270 people.

Industry

Maydown is an industrial zone and was the site of the first

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production facility in Europe. DuPont first invented Kevlar in 1965 and its Maydown manufacturing facility is one of only three places in the world where Kevlar is produced. The DuPont site at Maydown is now the lead partner in the University of Ulster's Biodiversity Action on Industrial Site (BAIS) project that aims to enhance biodiversity on land close to industrial activity. DuPont has developed of its Maydown site into wildlife habitats open to the public and a visitor centre used by local schools. Maydown Precision Engineering was established in 1985.

Places of interest

It was also the site of Royal Air Force Station Maydown, USAAF airfield and later transferred to the Royal Navy as Royal Naval Air Station airfield, RNAS Maydown, during World War II.

Sport

Maydown F.C. is the local

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team.

2011 Census

On Census day in 2011: *57.5% were from a Catholic background and 38.9% were from a Protestant background

References

NI Neighbourhood Information System
{{authority control Villages in County Londonderry Townlands of County Londonderry Derry and Strabane district