Irish Counties - Tyrone

County Tyrone (Contae Tír Eoghain) is the second largest of the nine counties of Ulster and the largest of the six counties of Northern Ireland. Tyrone is split into four districts: Cookstown, Dungannon, Omagh and Strabane.

Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, comprising part of modern day Co. Derry, east of the Foyle river. Omagh (An Ómaigh in Irish) is the capital (and largest town) of County Tyrone, situated where the rivers Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. It received international attention with the Omagh bombing of 1998, which killed 29 people - 13 women (one pregnant), 9 children and 6 men. The Ulster-American Folk Park in Omagh includes the cottage where Thomas Mellon was born in 1813, before emigrating to Pennsylvania, in the United States when he was five. His son Andrew W. Mellon became secretary to the US Treasury.

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Writers associated with Co. Tyrone include:

• Carleton, William
• Kiely, Benedict novelist and short-story writer
• Montague, John poet, novelist &essayist
• O'Brien, Flann novelist, playwright & satirist

Towns and Villages:
Castlederg, Coalisland