Down

pop (2000e) 404 000; area 2448 km²/945 sq mi. County in SE Northern Ireland, UK, divided into six districts (Ards, Banbridge, Castlereagh, Down, Newry and Mourne, North Down); the name is also used for one of these districts, pop (2000e) 64 000, and its administrative centre; bounded N by Belfast Lough, S by Carlingford Lough, and E by the Irish Sea; coastline indented (N–S) by Strangford Lough, Dundrum Bay, and Carlingford Lough; Mourne Mts in the S; rises to 852 m/2795 ft at Slieve Donard; county town, Downpatrick; other chief towns, Newry, Bangor, Newtownards; oats, potatoes, vegetables, stock-rearing, linen.

Down may refer to:

Relative direction, where down is the opposite of up Down feathers Downland, a type of hill Down syndrome, a genetic disorder Down (football), in American/Canadian football, a period of time where one play takes place County Down, a county within Northern Ireland Down (album), an album by the Finnish heavy metal band Sentenced Down (band), an American Heavy Metal band Down (song), a song by the band 311 Down (blink-182 song), a song by pop-punk band blink-182 Down (film), the English remake of the film De Lift about an express elevator that develops a mind of its own. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.