NENTRY, a seaport and parliamentary borough, situated partly in the county of Armagh, but principally in the county of Down, Ireland, distant from Dublin 63 tn. and from Belfast 38 in. s.s.w, with both which places it is connected by a branch-railway communicating with the Dublin and Belfast Junction railway. The town is nearly coeval with the English invasion, having grown up around a monastery founded in 1183, and a castle subsequently erected by Dc Courcey. This castle was the scene of several struggles; and in most of the civil wars of Ulster, Newry suffered severely. It was incorporated as a borough, with a corporation and two members of parliament, by James I. Since the union, it returns hut one member, and the corporation having been abol ished by the Irish municipal reform act, the affairs of the town are now administered by 21 commissioners. It is traversed by a river of the same name, which falls into Carling ford lough, and by a canal, by which the navigation is prolonged to lough Neagh, a distance of 32 miles. A commission has been appointed for improving Carlingford
lough and to remove the bar; the estimated cost being 280,000. The town is handsomely and compactly built. The quays arc lined with spacious warehouses, and there are sev eral mills, tanyards, coach and car manufactories, and iron foundries. Extensive water works have rteently been constructed. Linen, cotton, and iron manufactures are car ried on. The income of the port is £6,000 yearly. Steam-vessels ply to Liverpool and Glasgow from Warrenpoint, a port 5 rat. distant on Carlingford lough: and the Newry and Greenore railway, connecting the Newry and Armagh line with Carlingford lough, is in progress. Pop. '71, 14,153.