Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
3 .7.
Northern Ireland map of fatalities by British security personnel (
top
) and
by republican paramilitary groups (
botom
). Deaths standardized by ward population
size, with the Belfast area shown in more detail (
inset map
).
available for the majority of records. W here this is not the case or where
the information is vague, other sources were used in the “Troubled Ge-
ographies” project to try and identify locations for recorded fatalities.
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Figure 3.6 uses points to map the georeferenced records of fatalities
sourced from the Suton index. Unsurprisingly, clear signs of cluster-
ing are apparent. Many fatalities were concentrated in the major urban
centers of Belfast and Derry, and beyond these centers fatalities occurred
in large numbers in an arc stretching southwest from Belfast and south of
Lough Neagh and encompassing the towns and hinterlands of Lurgan,
Portadown, Armagh, and Dungannon. Another cluster is evident in the
South Armagh salient, south and west of Newry, close to the border
with the Republic. Similarly, fatalities are also evident at other frontier
locations farther to the west.
Once these records were georeferenced, the additional detail con-
tained in the Suton database enabled further analysis of fatalities occur-
ring within different groups. This is illustrated in figure 3.7, which shows
