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Recorded forms
An Doire Mhín· Irish · main form · validated name
Granville· English · main form
Place & story
A village and its school
Bartholomew's 1887 gazetteer recorded Granville as a village two miles south of Dungannon, with 91 inhabitants and a post office.[2]
The 1910 Ulster directory adds a later educational detail, naming Mr Spence as the teacher at Granville.[3]
The neighbouring parish
The nearby Derrygortreavy parish supplies an older setting for the village. Writing in 1837, Samuel Lewis described its square-towered church, paid for by the Board of First Fruits, and a glebe house built in 1822 with a £450 grant and £50 loan. He also recorded a parochial school erected near the church in 1825, supported by Lord Ranfurly. His account describes the wider parish, which had been formed from 36 townlands in 1819.[4]
People & connections
The Dobson brothers and Dungannon Meats
Jim and Jack Dobson began Dungannon Meats as a butcher's shop in nearby Moygashel in 1976. The company's own chronology dates new Dungannon slaughtering and boning facilities to 1983, a further boning hall to 1990 and retail packing facilities to 1993. It adopted the name Dunbia in 2006. Companies House records locate Dunbia Limited's registered office at Granville Industrial Estate.[5][6]
A major industrial investment
In 2015 the Northern Ireland government announced a £27 million investment in Dunbia's Dungannon operation, supported by £2 million from Invest Northern Ireland. The plan included 209 additional jobs. That October, co-founder Jack Dobson won the Industry category at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards: a recognition of a business whose headquarters connected Granville with a much wider food-processing network.[7]
Both censuses use the same 2015 settlement boundary. These exact counts cover usual residents in the settlement, rather than local government districts or historic counties. Other NISRA tables may use approximate counts.
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GRANVILLE — Settlement 2015 (N11000321) — census population
The census used a grid rectangle around the built-up area, rather than today’s settlement boundary. The 1981 figures are as enumerated, without adjustment for non-enumeration. These counts remain separate from later settlement totals.
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Granville — census rectangle H770600 to H780610 — census population
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