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Tyrone

Tír Eoghain

Tyrone’s upland and lowland settings connect different communities whose administrative centres changed over time.

Recorded locationTyrone54.60957° N · 7.11333° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ieOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗

The name

tírland, territory

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Tír Eoghain · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Tyrone · English · main form

Place & story

Several local landscapes

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council’s landscape assessment describes Omagh farmland beneath Bessy Bell, drumlins and the Strule, Drumragh and Camowen valleys. It also distinguishes exposed Beaghmore moorland and the Carrickmore hills, with small lakes and views towards Mullaghcarn. These descriptions concern particular character areas rather than every part of the county. A precise townland can therefore place a family in a much more specific landscape than the broad label Tyrone. [4]

Two towns, different histories

Lewis’s 1837 Dungannon account emphasises O’Neill political authority and a later market town in Drumglass parish. His Omagh entry describes rebuilding after fire, its river setting and the concentration of county business there. The transfer of an administrative function matters when looking for records: a later county centre does not establish where earlier business was conducted. Political prominence, a courthouse and a market are different forms of a town’s regional importance. [2] [3]

Do not infer one community from a county

Omagh itself extended into both Drumragh and Cappagh parishes. That local example cautions against assuming a single parish from a familiar town name, still less from the county name alone. Keep the townland, church, institution and date in a family reference. The O’Neill history in an old directory gives political context but not personal descent; similarly, a place-name’s resemblance to a landscape word is not enough to establish its complete meaning without linguistic evidence. [2] [3]

Geographic information

Place type
County
County
Tyrone
Coordinates
54.60957, -7.11333 (approximate)
Mapped area
3,265.02 km²
Logainm ID
100030 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1926 census

This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.

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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Tyrone. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Dungannon — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis · 1837
  3. Omagh — A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis · 1837
  4. Landscape Character Assessment, Position Paper 14, December 2015 · Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
  5. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-19. How this page was prepared.