County Tyrone
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- This article is about County Tyrone. For other uses of the name, see Tyrone (disambiguation).
| County Tyrone Contae Tír Eoghain |
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| Province: | Ulster | |
| County Town: | Omagh | |
| Area: | 3,155 km² | |
| Population (est.) | 166,516[citation needed] | |
County Tyrone (Irish: Contae Tír Eoghain) is the second largest of the nine counties of Ulster and the largest of the six counties of Northern Ireland. Area: 3,155 km² (1,218 square miles).
The county borders the Northern Ireland counties of Armagh, to the south-east, Fermanagh, to the south-west and County Londonderry to the north-east. The county also borders Lough Neagh to the east. The borders with the Republic of Ireland are County Monaghan to the south and County Donegal to the north-west.
Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on natural resources located there. Tyrone was the traditional stronghold of the various O'Neill clans and families, the strongest of the Gaelic Irish families in Ulster, surviving into the seventeenth century.
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[edit] District Councils
Tyrone is split into four districts:
- Strabane District Council
- Cookstown District Council
- Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council
- Omagh District Council
[edit] Towns
The county town of Tyrone is Omagh. Other towns include Fivemiletown, Strabane, Cookstown, Dungannon, Castlederg, Coalisland, Donaghmore, Ardboe, Pomeroy, Altmore, Killeeshil and Carrickmore.
[edit] Notable residents
- John Hughes, (1797-1864), born in Annaloghan, first Archbishop of Roman Catholic diocese of New York.[1]
[edit] References
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- ^ (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who.
[edit] External links
[edit] See also
- List of places in County Tyrone
- Lakeland Cycle Club
Connacht: Galway (~City) • Leitrim • Mayo • Roscommon • Sligo
Munster: Clare • Cork (~City) • Kerry • Limerick (~City) • Tipperary (North~; South~) • Waterford (~City)
Leinster: Carlow • Dublin (~City; Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown; Fingal; South~) • Kildare • Kilkenny • Laois • Longford • Louth • Meath • Offaly • Westmeath • Wexford • Wicklow
Ulster: Cavan • Donegal • Monaghan • Antrim • Armagh • Down • Fermanagh • Londonderry • Tyrone
italics denote non-administrative counties; (parentheses) denote non-traditional counties
