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Aghaloo
Aghaloo is a civil parish in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Lower. The Parish contains the following towns and villages: * Aughnacloy * Caledon *Carnteel The Parish contains the following 68 townlands: __NOTOC__ A Aghenis, Annacramp, Annagh, Annagh More, Annaghroe, Annaghsallagh, Ards B Ballagh, Ballyboy, Ballyvaddy, Bohard C Caledon, Carricklongfield, Cavanboy, Creevelough, Crilly, Cronghill, Culligan, Cumber, Curlagh D Demesne, Derrycourtney, Derrygooly, Derrykintone, Derrylappen, Dromore, Drumearn, Drumess, Drummond, Dunmacmay, Dyan E Edenageeragh, Enagh F Finglush G Glasdrummond, Glenarb, Glencrew, Glendavagh, Glenkeen, Guiness K Kedew, Kilgowney, Killynaul, Kilmore, Kilsampson, Kilsannagh, Knockaginny, Knocknaroy L Lairakean, Legane, Lismulladown M Millberry, Mullaghmore East, Mullaghmore West, Mullaghmossagh, Mullintor, Mullycarnan, Mullynaveagh, Mullynei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caledon, County Tyrone
Caledon () is a small village and townland (of 232 acres) in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is in the Clogher Valley on the banks of the River Blackwater, 10 km from Armagh. It lies in the southeast of Tyrone and near the borders of County Armagh and County Monaghan. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Lower and the civil parish of Aghaloo. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 387 people. It is a designated conservation area. It was historically known as Kinnaird (Irish: ''Cionn Aird'', meaning "head/top of the height or hill". History The old settlement of Kinard was burned in 1608 by the forces of Sir Cahir O'Doherty during O'Doherty's Rebellion. Sir Henry Óg O'Neill, the main local landowner, was killed by the rebels. In 1967 the Gildernew family, began a protest about discrimination in housing allocation by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon. The house had been allocated by Dungannon Rural District Council to a 19-y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungannon Lower
Dungannon Lower (named after Dungannon town) is a historic barony in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was created in 1851 with the splitting of the barony of Dungannon. It is bordered by four other baronies in Northern Ireland: Dungannon Middle to the north; Tiranny to the south-east; Clogher to the west; and Omagh East to the north-west. It is also bordered in the south-west by the barony of Trough in the Republic of Ireland. List of main settlements * Aughnacloy * Caledon List of civil parishes Below is a list of civil parishes in Dungannon Lower: * Aghaloo *Carnteel *Clonfeacle Clonfeacle is a civil parish in County Armagh and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is split across the historic baronies of Armagh and Oneilland West in County Armagh and Dungannon Lower and Dungannon Middle in County Tyrone. The Parish co ... (split with Dungannon Middle, Armagh and Oneilland West) * Killeeshil References {{coord missing, County Tyrone 1851 establishments i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aughnacloy, County Tyrone
Aughnacloy, sometimes spelt Auchnacloy (Irish: ''Achadh na Cloiche'' (field of the stone)) is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Close to the Irish border, border with County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland, the village is about 20 km southwest of Dungannon, and 7 km southeast of Ballygawley, County Tyrone, Ballygawley. It is situated in the historic Barony (geographic), barony of Dungannon Lower and the Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Carnteel. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Census it had a population of 1,045. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th Open Government Licence v3.0 © Crown copyright. History Much of the town was built in the 18th Century by Acheson Moore, the local landlord. Because he backed the Jacobitism, Jacobite cause, he planted his estate in the shape of a thistle and planned out the town on the edge of it. Unable to rename it "Mooretown", he had to settle for naming the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnteel
Carnteel ()) is a hamlet, townland and civil parish, about 2 miles northeast of Aughnacloy in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Lower. Carnteel Village The village is situated 14 kilometres southwest of Dungannon, close to the B35 Dungannon to Aughnacloy Road, with a hilltop location, focused around a crossroads at its centre and with the ruins of an historic church. It is largely made up of housing, with a large agricultural machinery business to the north, and other facilities limited to a shop and post office. Carnteel Parish In 1837 Carnteel Parish, situated on the River Blackwater, had a population of 7,459 people (including those in Aughnacloy) and covered 13,432 acres. It was mountainous, with some bog, in the north of the parish and there was extensive quarrying. Most people were engaged in agriculture with some linen and cotton weaving. The church at Carnteel was destroyed in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and replaced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Parishes In Ireland
Civil parishes () are units of territory in the island of Ireland that have their origins in old Gaelic territorial divisions. They were adopted by the Anglo-Norman Lordship of Ireland and then by the Elizabethan Kingdom of Ireland, and were formalised as land divisions at the time of the Plantations of Ireland. They no longer correspond to the boundaries of Roman Catholic or Church of Ireland parishes, which are generally larger. Their use as administrative units was gradually replaced by Poor_law_union#Ireland, Poor Law Divisions in the 19th century, although they were not formally abolished. Today they are still sometimes used for legal purposes, such as to locate property in deeds of property registered between 1833 and 1946. Origins The Irish parish was based on the Gaelic territorial unit called a ''túath'' or ''Trícha cét''. Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman barons retained the ''tuath'', later renamed a parish or manor, as a un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
