Ballymacarret

Ballymacarrett with one or two two tee’s comes from the Irish Baile Mhic Gearóid meaning MacGearóid's settlement') is the name of both the townland and the electoral ward in Belfast. On the east side of the Lagan river the townland is in County Down and is part of the Titanic district of Belfast. The townalnd consists of two distinct districts: Ballymacarrett itself, which is almost entirely Protestant, and the Short Strand which is almost entirely Catholic, with the two separated by a peaceline.
Set in the shadows of the Harland and Wolff cranes Samson & Goliath, large numbers of local men worked in the shipyard during its heyday. The area is also well known for 'Ulster's Freedom Corner', a series of loyalist murals. The twonland of Ballymacarret Intake is mainly the reclaimed land north of the Sydenham bypass