Tyrone Ireland

The name Tyrone (Bed and Breakfasts, Tyrone, Ireland) comes from the Irish Gaelic word, Tir Eoghain, meaning the land of Eoghan, the son of Niall, St. Patricks kidnapper.

Tyrone has been inhabited for approximately 6,000 years. It was te ancestoral home of the ONeill clan, which reigned over Ulster until the beginning of the 17th century, when they, along with the other major Irish clans of Ulster, abdicated their throne to the Englishand fled to continental Europe in what was to be known as the Flight of the Earls. Like the rest of Ulster, English and Scottish colonists were moved in.

County Tyrones indigenous population, as well as its Scottish Presbyterian addition, was a significant contribution to early American settlements.

Co. Tyrone
Tyrone (Holiday Apartments, Tyrone, Ireland) is a large hilly county, occupying the north-central part of Ulster. On the north-eastern edge the ancient ridge of the Sperrin mountains rises to 2240 ft., and heathery hills continue southward right across the county. The only low ground is along the Lough Neagh shore on the cast, and the valleys of the tributaries of the Foyle, which drain the greater part of the county, in the north-west. There is a larger amount of tillage and a smaller area of grass than the Irish average. There is a coal-field around Dungannon and Coalisland in the east, which is worked in a small way.
Strabane, in the north-west, is a busy town standing where the River Finn joins the Mourne to form the Foyle. Omagh is situated on a tributary of the Foyle in the centre of the county. Dungannon and Cookstown lie to the east, not far from Lough Neagh, the former perched picturesquely on a steep hill.

A high bare east-and-west ridge of mica-schist, the Sperrin mountains, rises on the borders of Derry and Tyrone (Accommodation, Tyrone, Ireland), attaining 2240 feet in Sawel. For twenty miles or more, on almost every side of this central mass, hills rise, stretching to the Swilly valley on the west and the Bann valley on the cast, and overlooking Lough Foyle on the north. Two of the most conspicuous of the outliers of this mass arc Slieve Gallion on the south-east, which looks down on the Tyrone coal-field and Lough Neagh, and the beautiful cliff-walled hill of Benevenagh on the north, which rises imposingly above the great sandy flat of Magilligan, at the entrance of Lough Foyle.

Posted on April 17th, 2008 under History. Tags: foyle, History, lough neagh, o'neill clan, sawel, sperrin mountain, st. patrick, tir eoghain, Tyrone. Comments: 2