Newmills is a small village in east

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. Newmills gets its name from a corn mill and kilns that formerly stood in the area. Local amenities include a primary school, a local shop and a number of churches. It currently has a population of approximately 400 people. The River Torrent flows through the village.

Places of interest

*Annaginny Fisheries is a stocked and managed fishery. *

Roughan Castle Roughan may refer to: *Roughan, a townland in Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council ( ga, Comhairle Buirge Dhún Geanainn agus Thír Eoghain Theas, Ulster Scots: ''Rathgannon an Sooth Owenslanngh ...

was built in 1618 by Sir Andrew Stewart. *Newmills Presbyterian Church.

Politics

*Newmills is in the

Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council ( ga, Comhairle Buirge Dhún Geanainn agus Thír Eoghain Theas, Ulster Scots: ''Rathgannon an Sooth Owenslanngh Cooncil'') was a local council in Northern Ireland from 1973 until 2015. It was originall ...

area at the geographic centre of the Torrent ward.

Sport

*Association Football is most popular local sport, and a number of teams from Newmills enter local leagues in the South Tyrone area.

People

* Robert Morrow, received the

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for bravery on 12 April 1915 near Messines,

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during

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. He was killed in action on 26 April 1915. *

Lydia Mary Foster Lydia Mary Foster (18 June 1867 – 13 December 1943) was an Irish writer and teacher, who wrote three books drawing on the experiences of growing up in rural Ulster in the 19th century in the Kailyard school genre. Life Lydia Mary Foster was b ...

, novelist, writer and poet, was the daughter of Rev. James Foster, the

Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...

Minister of Newmills from 1850 to 1890.

References

{{authority control Villages in County Tyrone