Place:Moneymore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

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NameMoneymore
TypeTown
Coordinates54.7°N 6.683°W
Located inCounty Londonderry, Northern Ireland
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Moneymore is a village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,369 in the 2001 Census.

It is an example of a Plantation village in Mid-Ulster. It was the first town in Ulster to have piped water.

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Originally built by the Worshipful Company of Drapers, the village was held in such esteem that they invested in a large scale reconstruction during 1817. During The Troubles, seven people were killed in or near Moneymore in violence related to the conflict, six of them by the Provisional IRA.

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