Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a sortable table of the approximately 2,162 townlands in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. [1] [2] Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county. Names marked in bold typeface are towns and villages, and the word Town appears for those entries in the Acres column.
This is a list of cities, towns, villages and hamlets in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. See the list of places in Northern Ireland for places in other counties. Towns are listed in bold .
County Tyrone (/ t ɪ ˈ r oʊ n /; [6] from Irish Tír Eoghain, meaning 'land of Eoghan' [tʲiːɾʲ ˈoːnʲ]) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. Its county town is Omagh.
Dungannon (from Irish Dún Geanainn, meaning 'Geanann's fort', pronounced [d̪ˠuːn̪ˠ ˈɟan̪ˠən̪ˠ]) [1] is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 16,282 at the 2021 Census. [2]
Newtownstewart is a village and townland of 540 acres (219 ha) in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is overlooked by hills called Bessy Bell and Mary Gray and lies on the River Strule below the confluence with its tributary the Owenkillew. It is situated in the historic barony of Strabane Lower and the civil parish of Ardstraw. [2]
The NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) defines a town as having a population of 4,500 or more. Settlements of 2,250 to 4,500 people are defined as intermediate settlements, villages are defined as having populations of 1,000 to 2,250 people and small villages and hamlets are defined as having less than 1,000 people (ref: Report of the Inter-Departmental Urban-Rural Definition Group ...
A monastery was apparently established on the site of the town about 792, and a Franciscan friary was founded in 1464. [7] Omagh was founded as a town in 1610. It served as a refuge for fugitives from the east of County Tyrone during the 1641 Rebellion. In 1689, James II arrived at Omagh, en route to Derry.
The NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) defines a town as having a population of 4,500 or more people (ref: Report of the Inter-Departmental Urban-Rural Definition Group – Statistical Classification and Delineation of Settlements, February 2005]) See Also: List of towns in Northern Ireland and List of villages in Northern Ireland