Tandragee

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Tandragee (Irish: Tóin re Gaoith) (also spelt Tanderagee) is a small town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, on the Cusher River. It had a population of 3,050 people in the 2001 Census.

On the outside overlooking the village is the baronial style castle built in about 1837 by George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester. It has been described as a "Gothic Extravaganza". Prior to the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Tandragee Castle was the ancestral seat of the O'Hanlon Sept, Princes of Oirthirr and Ui Naillan. The castle today houses the offices of the potato crisp company Tayto.

Much of the town's Georgian architecture has fallen into disrepair. Northern Ireland Electricity has an interconnector to the Republic of Ireland from the outskirts of the town.

1 Education
2 Sport
3 Industry
4 Transport
5 2001 Census
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Education

Tandragee Primary School
Tandragee Junior High School

[edit] Sport

Tandragee Rovers
Tandragee Youth

[edit] Industry

Thomas Sinton opened a mill in town in the 1880s, an expansion of his firm from its original premises at nearby Laurelvale - a model village he built. Sintons' mill, situated at the banks of the River Cusher, remained in production until the 1990s.^[1]

[edit] Transport

Tandragee railway station opened on 6 January 1852 and finally closed on 4 January 1965.^[2]

[edit] 2001 Census

Tandragee is classified as an intermediate settlement by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (ie with population between 2,050 and 4,500 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 3,050 people living in Tandragee. Of these:

24.9% were aged under 16 years and 14.3% were aged 60 and over
48.0% of the population were male and 52.0% were female
10.5% were from a Roman Catholic background and 86.9% were from a Protestant background
2.0% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed.

For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service