Killay, County Tyrone

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Killay is a hometown in the Parish of Pomeroy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The area of Killay is rural and the main livelihood is agricultural farming and livestock. It is immediately surrounded by the town lands of Cavanacaw, The Bonn, Lurganeden, Aughafad, Gortnagarn, Turnabarson and Cavanakeeran. At one time Killay was the hometown of one of the oldest men who ever lived George Fletcher lived to 118 until his death in 1906. Edward VII commemorated with a gold snuff box in 1904. At the time he was the oldest person in Great Britain. Killay originated from the estate of Sir William Parsons, Surveyor general of Ireland in the 17th Century, who received a thousand acre estate from early plantations.