Миллисл: Солтүстік Ирландияның тарихы мен тұрғындары

the racehorse

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 3 mile (5 km) south of Donaghadee. It is situated in the townlands of Ballymacruise (from ga Baile Mhic Naosa MacNeice’s townland) and Ballycopeland (from ga Baile Chóplainn Copeland's townland), the civil parish of Donaghadee and the historic barony of Ards Lower. It had a population of 2,318 people in the 2011 Census.

The name Millisle is possibly derived from ga Baile an Mhuilin Townland of the mill 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.

In the 2011 Census Millisle had a population of 2,318 people (991 households).

Some of the Jewish children who arrived in the UK in 1939 under the Kindertransport program were sent to Northern Ireland. Many of them were looked after by foster parents but others went to the Millisle Refugee Farm ("Magill's Farm", on the Woburn Road) which took refugees from May 1938 until its closure in 1948.

Abbey Villa F. C. play association football in the Northern Amateur Football League.

Amy Carmichael, a Christian missionary to India, was born in the village in 1867. The Carmichael townhouse, which was sited on the junction of Main Street and Abbey Road, was demolished in 2002. A commemorative plaque was erected by the town to mark the site. William Kelly (1821–1906), prominent member of the Plymouth Brethren, writer and scholar, was born in Millisle.