Derry or Londonderry has a population of 83,699 the council population of 105, 000, making it the second-largest city in northern Ireland. Then in Britain in Bloom winners once. There is one of the longest continuously inhabited places in Ireland with earliest references in the sixth century AD, when on issues founded their, but thousands of years before that people have been living nearby. The original walled city lies on the west bank of the River Foyle, and the city now covers both banks.