Moyle District
Geography
Area: - Total - % Water	Ranked 14th 480 km² ? %
Admin HQ:	Ballycastle
ISO 3166-2:	GB-MYL
ONS code:	95E
Demographics
Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density	Ranked 26th 15,933 33 / km²
Community:	Protestant: 38.3% Catholic: 60.3%
Politics
Moyle District Council http://www.moyle-council.org
MPs:	Ian Paisley

Moyle District Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in the north-east corner of Northern Ireland. It covers a largely rural area of approximately 190 square miles (including 42 miles of coastline) and has a population of 15,000. Moyle has the smallest population of any principal local authority in the United Kingdom. Council headquarters is in Ballycastle. Other towns in the area include Bushmills (home to the world's oldest licensed distillery which has produced the famous Irish whiskey "Bushmills" since 1608), Ballintoy, Armoy, Cushendall, Cushendun and Waterfoot. The area is very popular with tourists and includes the three best known features of Northern Ireland: the Giant's Causeway (a World Heritage Site), the Glens of Antrim and Rathlin Island (lying 7 miles off Ballycastle). This article explains the meaning of area as a Physical quantity. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area. ... (Redirected from 1 E8 m2) To help compare different orders of magnitude and geographical regions, we list here areas between 100 km² and 1000 km². See also areas of other orders of magnitude. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... This article is about Ballycastle, County Antrim. ... The ISO 3166-2 codes for the United Kingdom correspond to the nations administrative divisions. ... The Office for National Statistics coding system is a hierarchical code used in the United Kingdom for tabulating census and other statistical data. ... In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Density (symbol: ρ - Greek: rho) is a measure of mass per unit of volume. ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by population (census April 29, 2001 [1]). See also: Local Councils in Northern Ireland Local Councils in Northern Ireland by area Local Councils in Northern Ireland by community make-up ... This is a list of Local Councils in Northern Ireland by Protestant / Catholic community make-up In the 2001 decennial census, the Census Office for Northern Ireland (CONI) asked a new question to attempt to achieve a more accurate depiction of the balance of the mainly Unionist Protestant and mainly... This is a list of MPs elected to the House of Commons for the Fifty-Third Parliament of the United Kingdom at the UK general election, 2001, arranged by constituency. ... See also Ian Paisley, Jr. ... County Antrim (Aontroim in Irish) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. ... Northern Ireland is an administrative region and one of four parts of the United Kingdom. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... This article is about Ballycastle, County Antrim. ... Bushmills is a town on the north coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ... The harbour at Ballintoy. ... Basalt columns Giants Causeway A plane of columns The Giants Boot The Giants Causeway is an area of 40,000 tightly packed basalt columns resulting from a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago. ... Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ... Bird sanctuary on Rathlin Island Rathlin Island is an island off the coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, and is the northernmost point of the province. ...

The Council is composed of 15 Councillors who are elected every four years by a system of Proportional Representation. The Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson are elected on a yearly basis at the Council's Annual General Meeting in June. A councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the U.K. and its former colonies. ... Proportional Representation (PR) describes various multi-winner electoral systems which try to ensure that the proportional support gained by different groups is accurately reflected in the election result. ...

Together with the neighbouring Local Council areas of Ballymena and Ballymoney, it forms the North Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly. Ballymena is a town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. ... Ballymoney Borough Council is a Local Council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. ... North Antrim is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative institution in the United Kingdom and British overseas territories (it alone has parliamentary sovereignty). ... The Northern Ireland Assembly is a 108-member legislative body for Northern Ireland that sits at Stormont with powers devolved to it from the Westminster parliament. ...

See also

• Local Councils in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is divided into 26 Local Council areas. ...

External links

• Causeway Coast and Glens Tourism (http://www.causewaycoastandglens.com/ccg/index.asp)
• Ballycastle Website (http://www.ballycastle.info/)