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| Limavady district | |
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| Geography | |
| Area: - Total - % Water | Ranked 10th 586 km² ? % |
| Admin HQ: | Limavady |
| ISO 3166-2: | GB-LMV |
| ONS code: | 95B |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (April 29, 2001) - Density | Ranked 23rd 32,422 55 / km² |
| Community: | Catholic: 56.6% Protestant: 41.6 |
| Politics | |
| Limavady District Council http://www.limavady.gov.uk | |
| MP: | Gregory Campbell |
Limavady is a town in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland.
Limavady is most famous for the tune to Danny Boy, The Londonderry Air. It was in this town a local harmonica player, Jonny Dallas, captured the local tune, published the score and then emigrated to America.
Together with the neighbouring district of Coleraine, it forms the East Londonderry constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.
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Antrim | Ards | Armagh | Ballymena | Ballymoney | Banbridge | Belfast | Carrickfergus | Castlereagh | Coleraine | Cookstown | Craigavon | Derry | Down | Dungannon and South Tyrone | Fermanagh | Larne | Limavady | Lisburn | Magherafelt | Moyle | Newry and Mourne | Newtownabbey | North Down | Omagh | Strabane |
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