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County Tyrone

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This article is about County Tyrone. For other uses of the name, see Tyrone (disambiguation).

County Tyrone
Contae Tír Eoghain

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Location

Statistics

Province:

Ulster

County Town:

Omagh

Area:

3,155 km²

Population (est.)

166,516^{[citation needed]}

County Tyrone (Irish: Contae Tír Eoghain) is the second largest of the nine counties of Ulster and the largest of the six counties of Northern Ireland. Area: 3,155 km² (1,218 square miles).

The county borders the Northern Ireland counties of Armagh, to the south-east, Fermanagh, to the south-west and County Londonderry to the north-east. The county also borders Lough Neagh to the east. The borders with the Republic of Ireland are County Monaghan to the south and County Donegal to the north-west.

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 different O'Neill clans and families, the strongest of the Gaelic Irish families.

1 District Councils
2 Towns
3 Notable residents
4 References
5 External links
6 See also

[edit] District Councils

Tyrone is split into four districts:

[edit] Towns

The county town of Tyrone is Omagh. Other towns include Fivemiletown, Strabane, Cookstown, Dungannon, Castlederg, Coalisland, Donaghmore, Ardboe, Pomeroy and Altmore.

[edit] Notable residents

John Hughes, (1797-1864), born in Annaloghan, first Archbishop of Roman Catholic diocese of New York.<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896"> (1963) Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who.</ref>

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

[edit] See also

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Counties of Ireland

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Connacht: Galway ^* (~City ^*) • Leitrim ^* • Mayo ^* • Roscommon ^* • Sligo ^*

Munster: Clare ^* • Cork ^* (~City ^*) • Kerry ^* • Limerick ^* (~City ^*) • Tipperary ^* (North~ ^*; South~ ^*) • Waterford ^* (~City ^*)

Leinster: Carlow ^* • Dublin ^* (~City ^*; Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown ^*; Fingal ^*; South~ ^*) • Kildare ^* • Kilkenny ^* • Laois ^* • Longford ^* • Louth ^* • Meath ^* • Offaly ^* • Westmeath ^* • Wexford ^* • Wicklow ^*

Ulster: Antrim ^† • Armagh ;^† • Cavan ^* • Donegal ^* • Down ^† • Fermanagh ^† • Londonderry ^† • Monaghan ^* • Tyrone ^†

^† denotes counties in Northern Ireland ^* denotes counties in the Republic of Ireland;
italics denotes non-administrative counties; (parentheses) denotes non-traditional counties

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