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Cregagh
Cregagh () is an area southeast of Belfast in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is the name of a townland and has been adopted as the name of an electoral ward of the Borough of Castlereagh. The townland dates back to mediaeval times, when it was part of the territory held by the O'Neills of Clannaboy.〔Keith Haines, ''East Belfast: Paintings and Stories from Harbour to Hills'', Dundurn Press Ltd., 2001, pp. 3–7〕 The area is centred on the Cregagh Road. The Woodstock/Cregagh Road is a continuous arterial route in the city, with the Woodstock making up the lower half of the route and the Cregagh the upper half. It runs from the Albertbridge Road, close to the Short Strand, to the A55 Outer Ring road.
==Woodstock Road==
The Woodstock Road forms the beginning of the continuous road that includes Cregagh and which runs from close to the River Lagan to the outskirts of Belfast. The road begins at the Woodstock Link which cuts off the Albertbridge Road facing Mountpottinger Road. The Mount, a prominent conference facility built in 1997, is located close to this junction on the Woodstock Link.〔(The Mount Business and Conference Centre )〕 Following the junction with the Beersbridge Road the Woodstock Road is mainly lined with shops and other places of business. The area, also known as Willowfield, is also home to a number of churches, including the Church of Ireland place of worship Willowfield Parish Church,〔(Willowfield Parish Church )〕 Saint Anthony's Roman Catholic Church.〔(Saint Anthony's Catholic Church )〕 and the Cregagh Gospel Hall. Other amenities include a public library〔(Woodstock Library )〕 and a Police Service of Northern Ireland station.〔(Station opening hours )〕 The Willowfield area formerly lent its name to the Belfast Willowfield constituency of the old Parliament of Northern Ireland.
An Ulster loyalist flute band, Crimson Star, is based in the area and their badge is shown on a mural painted on a wall on Ardenvohr Street just off the Woodstock Road.〔(A Directory of Murals – Album 27 )〕 During the Troubles notorious Ulster Volunteer Force hitman Robert "Squeak" Seymour ran a video shop on the Woodstock Road. It was whilst working at his shop that Seymour was shot and killed by two Provisional Irish Republican Army members on 15 June 1988.〔Cusack, Jim & McDonald, Henry (1997). ''UVF''. Poolbeg. p.250〕
The Woodstock Road continues as far Ravenhill Avenue when it becomes the Cregagh Road. The Woodstock Road was formerly known as the lower Cregagh Road and in the nineteenth century it was mainly made up of farmland. Until the 1920s parts of the Cregagh Road, which is now entirely urbanised, were agricultural.〔Haines, ''East Belfast'', Dundurn Press Ltd., 2001, pp. 74–75〕
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