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Reaghan

A club tribute locates a long sporting and teaching career in Reaghan and neighbouring Lislap.

Watercolour and fine ink of rush-filled grassland, a pollarded hedge and farm sheds in Reaghan, County Tyrone.
Rushy ground beside Dunmullan Road in Reaghan townland, as photographed in March 2024.
Recorded locationReaghan54.68362° N · 7.30786° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Reaghan · English · main form

Place & story

People & connections

From Cappagh to county service

Niall McKenna’s tribute for Killyclogher GAA records that Brendan Harkin grew up in Reaghan and Lislap. Born in 1948, he attended Castleroddy Primary School, Omagh CBS and Queen’s University Belfast. He helped re-form the club in 1965 and served as its secretary until 2018. His wider work included two terms as Tyrone county chairman, while his teaching career was spent at Omagh CBS. The account links both townlands with his upbringing, without identifying a particular birthplace. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Cappagh
Coordinates
54.68362, -7.30786
Mapped area
2.29 km²
Logainm ID
65410 ↗

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.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Reaghan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Brendan Harkin: The Summit of Greatness · Niall McKenna; Killyclogher GAA
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Rushy ground in Reaghan townland, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Rushy ground, Reaghan by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.