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Tyrone was the largest of the six counties of Northern Ireland before the local government reorganization of 1973. Omagh, the chief town, suffered severely in a bomb attack in 1998 which killed 26 people. Strabane, Dungannon, and Cookstown are local centres.
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| Tyrone Contae Thír Eoghain |
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| Province: | Ulster | |
| County seat: | Omagh | |
| Area: | 3,155 km² (1,218 sq mi) | |
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County Tyrone (Irish: Contae Thír Eoghain, Ulster Scots: Coontie Owenslann[2]) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland.
Tyrone is the second largest of the nine counties of Ulster and the largest of the six counties of Northern Ireland. It has an area of 3,155 square kilometres (1,218 square miles).
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The name Tyrone is derived from the Irish: Tír Eoghain meaning "land of Eógan". This Eógan was son of king Niall of the Nine Hostages, and brother of Conall Gulban, who gave his name to the kingdom of Tír Chonaill.[3]
Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on natural resources located there. Tyrone was the traditional stronghold of the various O'Neill clans and families, the strongest of the Gaelic Irish families in Ulster, surviving into the seventeenth century. The ancient principality of Tir-Owen, the inheritance of the O'Neills, included the whole of the present counties of Tyrone and Londonderry, and the two baronies of Inishowen and Raphoe in County Donegal.[3]
With an area of 3,155 square kilometres (1,218 square miles), Tyrone is the largest county in Northern Ireland. The flat peatlands of East Tyrone borders the shoreline of the largest lake in Ireland, Lough Neagh, rising gradually across to the more mountainous terrain in the west of the county, the area surrounding the Sperrin Mountains, the highest point being Sawel Mountain at a height of 678 m (2,224 ft). The length of the county, from the mouth of the River Blackwater at Lough Neagh to the western point near Carrickaduff hill is 55 miles. The breadth, from the southern corner, southeast of Fivemiletown, to the northeastern corner near Meenard Mountain is 37.5 miles; giving an area of 1,260 square miles (in 1900).[3]
It is one of four counties in Northern Ireland which presently has a majority of the population from a Catholic community background, according to the 2001 census. In 1900 County Tyrone had a population of 197,719[3], while in 2001 it was 166,516.
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Notable residents of County Tyrone have included:
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