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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 ]
It was originally named Dungannon District Council, gaining borough status and adding "South Tyrone" to its name on 25 November 1999, after petitioning the Secretary of State for the Environment. [3] In May 2015, under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland it merged with Cookstown District Council and Magherafelt District Council ...
As the name implies, it includes all of County Fermanagh and the southern part of County Tyrone. Of the post-1973 districts, it contained all of Fermanagh , and Dungannon and South Tyrone . In boundary changes resulting from a review in 1995, however, a section of Dungannon and South Tyrone (then called Dungannon) district, around the town of ...
With a population of 188,383 as of the 2021 census, Tyrone is the 5th most populous county in both Northern Ireland and Ulster, and the 11th most populous county on the island of Ireland. The county derives its name and general geographic location from Tír Eoghain , a Gaelic kingdom under the O'Neill dynasty which existed until the 17th century.
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.
South Tyrone; Former county constituency for the House of Commons: 1885–1922; Seats: 1: Created from: Dungannon and Tyrone: Replaced by: Fermanagh and Tyrone:
South Tyrone was created by the division of Fermanagh and Tyrone into eight new constituencies, of which five were in County Tyrone. The constituency survived unchanged, returning one member of Parliament, until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972 and then formally abolished in 1973.
South Tyrone Dungannon was a United Kingdom Parliament constituency, in Ireland, returning one MP. It was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801 and was abolished by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 .