Place:County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

NameCounty Tyrone
Alt namesTír Eoghainsource: logainm.ie (Irish)
Contae Thír Eoghainsource: logainm.ie (Irish)
Tyronesource: logainm.ie and Getty Vocabulary Program (English)
Co. Tyronesource: Royal Mail: PAF Digest [online] (2002) accessed 16 Dec 2002
Tir Eoghainsource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 669
TypeCounty
Located inNorthern Ireland     (1922 - 1973)
Also located inIreland     (1300 - 1922)
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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County Tyrone is one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster 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 [1] and has a population of about 177,986; its county town is Omagh. 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.

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