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County Tyrone
County Tyrone Contae Thír Eoghain Coontie Tyrone | ||
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| Motto(s): Consilio et Prudentia (Latin) "By Wisdom and Prudence" | ||
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| Country | United Kingdom | |
| Region | Northern Ireland | |
| Province | Ulster | |
| Established | 1585 | |
| County town | Omagh | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 1,218 sq mi (3,150 km2) | |
| Area rank | 8th | |
| Highest elevation (Sawel Mountain) |
2,224 ft (678 m) | |
| Population (2011) |
177,986 | |
| • Rank | 10th[1] |
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| Time zone | UTC±0 (GMT) |
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| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (BST) |
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| Postcode area | BT |
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| Website | discovernorthernireland.com/about-northern-ireland/counties/co-tyrone/tyrone/ | |
Contae Thír Eoghain is the Irish name; Countie Tyrone,[2]Coontie Tyrone[3] and Coontie Owenslann[4] are Ulster Scots spellings (the latter used only by Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council). | ||
County Tyrone (from Irish: Tír Eoghain, meaning "land of Eoghan") is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. It is no longer used as an administrative division for local government but retains a strong identity in popular culture.
Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of 3,155 km2 (1,218 sq mi) and has a population of about 177,986; its county town is Omagh. The county derives its name and general geographic location from Tyrone, a Gaelic kingdom under the O'Neill dynasty which existed until the 17th century.
Contents
1 Name
2 History
3 Geography
4 Demography
5 Settlements
5.1 Large towns
5.2 Medium towns
5.3 Small towns
5.4 Intermediate settlements
5.5 Villages
5.6 Small villages
6 Subdivisions
7 Future railway revival
8 Sport
9 Notable people
10 See also
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
Name
The name Tyrone is derived from Irish Tír Eoghain, meaning 'land of Eoghan', the name given to the conquests made by the Cenél nEógain from the provinces of Airgíalla and Ulaid.[5] Historically, it was anglicised as Tirowen or Tyrowen, which are closer to the Irish pronunciation.
History
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1653 | 3,988 | — |
| 1659 | 4,088 | +2.5% |
| 1821 | 261,865 | +6305.7% |
| 1831 | 304,468 | +16.3% |
| 1841 | 312,956 | +2.8% |
| 1851 | 255,661 | −18.3% |
| 1861 | 238,500 | −6.7% |
| 1871 | 215,766 | −9.5% |
| 1881 | 197,719 | −8.4% |
| 1891 | 171,401 | −13.3% |
| 1901 | 150,567 | −12.2% |
| 1911 | 142,665 | −5.2% |
| 1926 | 132,792 | −6.9% |
| 1937 | 127,586 | −3.9% |
| 1951 | 132,082 | +3.5% |
| 1961 | 133,919 | +1.4% |
| 1966 | 136,040 | +1.6% |
| 1971 | 139,073 | +2.2% |
| 1981 | 150,729 | +8.4% |
| 1991 | 156,284 | +3.7% |
| 2001 | 164,235 | +5.1% |
| 2011 | 177,986 | +8.4% |
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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. The ancient principality of Tír Eoghain, the inheritance of the O'Neills, included the whole of the present counties of Tyrone and Londonderry, and the four baronies of West Inishowen, East Inishowen, Raphoe North and Raphoe South in County Donegal.[12]
In 1608 during O'Doherty's Rebellion areas of the country were plundered and burnt by the forces of Sir Cahir O'Doherty following his destruction of Derry. However, O'Doherty's men avoided the estates of the recently fled Earl of Tyrone around Dungannon, fearing Tyrone's anger if he returned from his exile.[13]
Geography
With an area of 3,155 square kilometres (1,218 sq mi), Tyrone is the largest county in Northern Ireland. The flat peatlands of East Tyrone border the shoreline of the largest lake in the British Isles, Lough Neagh, rising gradually across to the more mountainous terrain in the west of the county, the area surrounding the Sperrin Mountains, the highest point being Sawel Mountain at a height of 678 m (2,224 ft). The length of the county, from the mouth of the River Blackwater at Lough Neagh to the western point near Carrickaduff hill is 55 miles (89 km). The breadth, from the southern corner, southeast of Fivemiletown, to the northeastern corner near Meenard Mountain is 37.5 miles (60.4 km); giving an area of 1,260 square miles (in 1900).[12] Annaghone lays claim to be the geographical centre of Northern Ireland.
Tyrone is connected by land to the county of Fermanagh to the southwest; Monaghan to the south; Armagh to the southeast; Londonderry to the north; and Donegal to the west. Across Lough Neagh to the east, it borders County Antrim. It is the eighth largest of Ireland's thirty-two counties by area and tenth largest by population.[14] It is the second largest of Ulster's nine traditional counties by area and fourth largest by population.[15]
Blackrock Bridge near Newtownstewart, carrying the closed GNR mainline that ran through the county
Demography
It is one of four counties in Northern Ireland which currently has a majority of the population from a Catholic community background, according to the 2011 census. In 1900 County Tyrone had a population of 197,719,[12] while in 2011 it was 177,986.
Settlements
Large towns
(population of 18,000 or more and under 75,000 at 2001 Census)[16]
- Omagh
Medium towns
(population of 10,000 or more and under 18,000 at 2001 Census)[16]
- Cookstown
- Dungannon
- Strabane
Small towns
(population of 4,500 or more and under 10,000 at 2001 Census)[16]
- Coalisland
Intermediate settlements
(population of 2,250 or more and under 4,500 at 2001 Census)[16]
- Castlederg
Villages
(population of 1,000 or more and under 2,250 at 2001 Census)[16]
- Ardboe
- Carrickmore
- Dromore
- Fintona
- Fivemiletown
- Killyclogher
- Moy
- Newtownstewart
- Sion Mills
Small villages
(population of less than 1,000 at 2001 Census)[16]
- Altamuskin
- Altmore
- Ardstraw
- Artigarvan
- Augher
- Aughnacloy
- Ballygawley
- Ballymagorry
- Benburb
- Beragh
- Bready
- Brockagh
- Caledon
- Clady
- Clogher
- Clonoe
- Derryloughan
- Derrytresk
- Donaghmore
- Donemana
- Drumquin
- Edenderry
- Eglish
- Erganagh
- Eskra
- Evish
- Glenmornan
- Gortin
- Greencastle
- Killyclogher
- Loughmacrory
- Kildress
- Plumbridge
- Pomeroy
- Rock
- Stewartstown
- Tamnamore
- Trillick
- Tullyhogue
- Victoria Bridge
Subdivisions
Baronies
- Clogher
- Dungannon Lower
- Dungannon Middle
- Dungannon Upper
- Omagh East
- Omagh West
- Strabane Lower
- Strabane Upper
Parishes
Townlands
Future railway revival
There is the possibility of the line being reopened to Dungannon railway station from Portadown.[17]
Sport
The major sports in Tyrone are Gaelic games, association football, rugby union and cricket.[citation needed]
Gaelic football is more widely played than hurling in Tyrone. The Tyrone GAA football side has had considerable success since 2000, winning three All Ireland titles (in 2003, 2005 and 2008). They have also won fourteen Ulster titles (1956, 1957, 1973, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2016)[18] and two National League titles (in 2002 and 2003).[citation needed]
- Association football also has a large following in Tyrone. Omagh Town F.C. were members of the Irish Football League until they folded in 2005 due to financial problems. Dungannon Swifts F.C. compete in the NIFL Premiership - the top division. Other teams include NIFL Championship side Dergview F.C..
- Rugby union is very popular in the county. Dungannon RFC plays in the All-Ireland League. Other teams include Omagh RFC, Clogher Valley RFC, Cookstown RFC and Strabane RFC.
- International Cricket is also played on the Bready Cricket Club Ground which is owned by Bready Cricket Club. It is Ireland's fourth venue for International Cricket hosting its first International Cricket match when Ireland played against Scotland in a series of T20I matches in June 2015.[19][20] It was selected as a venue to host matches in the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier tournament.[21]
Notable people
Philomena Begley, Irish country music singer
James E. Boyd, seventh Governor of Nebraska[22]
Paul Brady, musician
William Burke (1792–1829), grave robber and murderer
Peter Canavan, former All Ireland Tyrone captain
William Carleton (1794–1869), writer
Darren Clarke, professional golfer
Tom Clarke, Irish Republican and leader of the 1916 Easter Rising
- Claire Corrigan (1988-), [23] Filmmaker
Jimmy Cricket, comedian
Janet Devlin, soul and pop artist and contestant on The X Factor (UK)
Ryan Dolan, Ireland representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013
Brian Dooher, former captain of the Tyrone senior football team
Hugo Duncan, singer and broadcaster on BBC Radio
John Dunlap (1747–1812), publisher of the first American daily newspaper the Pennsylvania Packet in 1784, also the printer of the American Declaration of Independence
Brian Friel, dramatist and theatre director
Sylvia Hermon, Member of Parliament for North Down, born in Galbally, County Tyrone
Aaron Hughes, captain of the Northern Ireland football team
John Hughes (1797–1864), first Archbishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of New York[24]
Martin Hurson, Irish Republican- Matthias Kelly QC SC, chairman of the Bar of England and Wales 2003[25]
Ryan Kelly, singer with Celtic Thunder[26]
Benedict Kiely (1919–2007), writer and broadcaster
Gerry McKenna MRIA (1953–), biologist; Vice Chancellor and President, University of Ulster; Vice President, Royal Irish Academy[27]
William McMaster (1811–1887), founder of Canadian Bank of Commerce and namesake of McMaster University
Mary Mallon (1869–1938), more commonly known as Typhoid Mary
W. F. Marshall (1888–1954), the 'Bard of Tyrone', Presbyterian minister, author and poet
Thomas Mellon, founder of Mellon Bank, now Bank of New York Mellon
Flann O'Brien (1911–1966), writer
Dominic Ó Mongain (c.1715–1770s), poet and harpist
Arthur O'Neill (c.1737–1816), travelling blind Irish harpist
Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone (Aodh Mór Ó Néill) (c.1550–1616), Irish leader during the Nine Years' War
Thomas Porter, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Victor Sloan MBE, visual artist
Ivan Sproule, football player for Bristol City F.C.
Dennis Taylor, former world snooker champion
George Loyd (1843 – December 17, 1892), whose last name was occasionally spelled "Lloyd," was a United States Army soldier. He fought in the Battle of the Little Big Horn and in the Battle of Wounded Knee, now called the Wounded Knee Massacre, receiving the Medal of Honor for his actions in the latter.
See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to County Tyrone. |
- Abbeys and priories in Northern Ireland (County Tyrone)
- CoTyroneIreland.com - over 2000 pages of records of interest to genealogists & family history researchers
- High Sheriff of Tyrone
- List of civil parishes of County Tyrone
- List of places in County Tyrone
- List of townlands in County Tyrone
- Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone
- Ulster American Folk Park
- The Moorlough Shore
References
^ Cookstown.gov.uk Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
^ "North-South Ministerial Council: 2010 Annual Report in Ulster Scots" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "North-South Ministerial Council: 2006 Annual Report in Ulster Scots" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
^ "Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council". Dungannon.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 8 April 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
^ Art Cosgrove (2008); "A New History of Ireland, Volume II: Medieval Ireland 1169-1534". Oxford University Press.
^ For 1653 and 1659 figures from Civil Survey Census of those years, Paper of Mr Hardinge to Royal Irish Academy, 14 March 1865.
^ "Census for post 1821 figures". Cso.ie. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
^ "Histpop.org". Histpop.org. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
^ "Nisranews.gov.uk". Nisranew.nisra.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
^ Lee, JJ (1981). "On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
^ Mokyr, Joel; O Grada, Cormac (November 1984). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850". The Economic History Review. 37 (4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x.
^ abc "Description of County Tyrone from Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)". Library Ireland. Retrieved 24 February 2009.
^ McCavitt, John. The Flight of the Earls. Gill & MacMillan, 2002. p.143-44
^ Corry, Eoghan (2005). The GAA Book of Lists. Hodder Headline Ireland. pp. 186–191. ISBN 0-340-89695-7.
^ Marie Veronica Tarpey The role of Joseph McGarrity in the struggle for Irish independence
^ abcdef "Statistical classification of settlements". NI Neighbourhood Information Service. Retrieved 23 February 2009.
^ "All aboard! Dungannon railway hopes revived".
^ The Tyrone GAA team have won the Ulster Senior Championship on eight occasions in the 20th century
^ "Tyrone Kane given first Ireland call-up for World T20 qualifiers". BBC Sport. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
^ Ireland's Bready Cricket Club Gets ICC's Recognition[permanent dead link]
^ "ICC announces schedule of ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015". International Cricket Council. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
^ "Kansas Governor Walter Roscoe Stubbs". National Governors Association. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5813115/
^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607–1896. Chicago, IL: Marquis Who's Who. 1963.
^ O'Neill, Sean (16 December 2002). "We've forgotten that with every right comes a duty". The Daily Telegraph. London.
^ "Ryan Kelly". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
^ Professor P G (Gerry) McKenna. gerrymckenna.co.uk.
Further reading
- Joost, Augusteijn (ed.) (1920s). The Memoirs of John M. Regan, a Catholic Officer in the RIC and RUC, 1909–48. Co. Tyrone.
ISBN 978-1-84682-069-4. - McNeill, I. (2010). The Flora of County Tyrone. National Museums of Northern Ireland.
ISBN 978-1-905989-17-1
External links
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Wikivoyage has a travel guide for County Tyrone. |
County Tyrone at Curlie
- A Flavour of Tyrone
- County Tyrone.com
- Ulster-American Folk Park
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