New map of Belfast protestant/catholic populations.

Well not really.. Its just a teaser for what will be. What is new is that what you are looking at are the outlines of new Belfast. All that I've read so far is that these new divsions will give a nationalist majority in the council  chambers. Time will tell.

Percentage of Catholics in Ireland and Northern Ireland 1926

Don't know the origin of this map saw it on Politics.ie. I'm the process of creating a series of maps using a 1% grading for the religious make up of the island with a 32 county template. The 20% grade used here is somewhat frustrating but the reality is that the percentage of protestants in the Republic was never over 10% (at least after partition) so any maps used to represent this data need a very small grade but that means a lot more shades of colours are needed which is painful to produce.

New Northern Ireland Councils

Middle map shows the old system.  Below is the wikipedia summary of the changes. I'm guessing that fear politics are behind the fact that belfast is not taking in parts of "natural belfast" such as forestside.

1.	Belfast City		Belfast City Council plus parts of Castlereagh, Lisburn and North Down
2.	North Down and Ards District	102,313	Ards and North Down, except for a small part of the Knocknagoney area of North Down District which was to be transferred to Belfast
3.	Antrim and Newtownabbey District	120,496	Antrim and Newtownabbey
4.	Lisburn City and Castlereagh District	83,369	Lisburn and Castlereagh, though with the transfer of "the localities of Gilnahirk, Tullycarnet, Braniel, Castlereagh, Merok, Cregagh, Wynchurch, Glencregagh and Belvoir, Collin Glen, Poleglass, Lagmore, Twinbrook, Kilwee and Dunmurry" to Belfast
5.	Newry City, Mourne and Down District	107,233	Newry and Mourne and Down together with half of Slieve Croob
6.	Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon District	124,996	Armagh City and District, Banbridge and Craigavon, though with the loss of half of Slieve Croob to Newry City and Down District
7.	Mid and East Antrim District	89,832	Ballymena, Larne, and Carrickfergus
8.	Causeway Coast and Glens District	88,654	Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady and Moyle
9.	Mid-Ulster District	86,591	Magherafelt, Cookstown and Dungannon and South Tyrone
10.	Derry City and Strabane District	92,593	Derry and Strabane.
11.	Fermanagh and Omagh District	74,414	Fermanagh and Omagh

Percentage of Protestants in County Cavan 2006

Got this from a crowd called the "Cavan protestant network" . I am curious to find out more about the area in the dark red that is greater than 40% so if you know anything about it please comment. The website had a few batches of stats and some commentary, one interesting thing was that they said that protestants near the border had been forced to move from their homes. This is something i have heard had happened in the north but not in the republic. I have asked Northerners about it and i have got mixed answers. All the people i asked where protestants so i have to assume that im not getting a biased answer. I feel i really need to ask a lot more people to get a better picture so i aint saying anything here this time.

N.Ireland Protestant Catholic Other demographics and Nationality results from Census 2011

These are some of the best maps that ive found on the subject at hand. I'll put any other good ones i find up here as well.  The biggest news for me has been the emergence of a "northern Irish" identity. Whatever else this might mean i think its actually good news for unionists as a northern Irish identity is essentially an identity that is ok with the current constitutional situation. On that I think that the current protests by loyalists actually feed into this identity.. underneath the anger against the loyalists is a recognition that republicans have stirred the shit here on this issue..those who have been pushed away from loyalists by their recent actions have also been pushed away from republicans who (all though staying quiet currently) have been tarnished by this aswell because their actions started this off..(not to mention the naming a playground after an IRA guy)  The alliance are going to do well out of all of this which is ironically a good thing for unionists/loyalists cause a vote for alliance is ultimately a vote for the union (or independence I guess). Unionists and loyalist will just have to start to learn how to live where they are a minority.

Protestant Catholic percentage of Population 1766

Taken from Qub Antropology department.

Can't figure out the difference between the red dot for 100% catholic and the red dot for just under 80% protestant...

See anything?

Northern Ireland catholic protestant make up by wards 2001

Got this from the cain website. Would love to see a similar map for 1922. You'd wonder why they didn't put fermanagh in the free state.

Belfast catholic protestant demographics 1991 - 2001

From 91 census. Source wesley Johnston website

From 2001 census. Source PULSE website

From 2001 census. Left diagram represents elderly people the right represents the youth. I don't know what ages were used to decided what constitutes young and old.  Source PULSE website. 

Update: the above is from the cain website. Its shows the wards around belfast as well in 2001.  I'm told by locals that there is a "protestant flight" happening with protestants leaving belfast to go to the ring around it. Ive also heard this called the greening of belfast. The results of the last census should confirm this trend. 

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