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Magherafelt District Council is a district council in County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It is set to merge with Cookstown District Council and Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Mid-Ulster District Council.
The council headquarters are in Magherafelt. The Council area stretches from Lough Neagh and the River Bann in the east and into the Sperrin Mountains in the west and is divided by the Moyola River. It covers an area of 214 square miles (550 km2) and has a current population of over 45,000. Local towns in the area include Bellaghy, birthplace of poet Seamus Heaney in 1939.
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