Tyrone Postcodes — Northern Ireland (NIR)

Tyrone County Post Code & Zip Code Category:

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Description of Tyrone

County Tyrone, whose name comes from the Irish for "land of Eoghan" (Tr Eoghain), is one of the 32 counties that make up Ireland, nine of the counties that make up Ulster, and six of the counties that make up Northern Ireland. Although it is no longer a functional political subdivision, its cultural legacy lives on.

The county is located adjacent to the south-western shore of Lough Neagh; it has a total area of 3,266 square kilometers (1,261 square miles); the population is approximately 177,986; and Omagh serves as the county seat. Tr Eoghain was a Gaelic kingdom ruled by the O'Neill family that flourished from the 5th to the 17th centuries, and it is from this time and place that the county takes its name and general location.

Irish Tr Eoghain, meaning "land of Eoghan," is where the Cenél nEógain settled after conquering the regions of Airgalla and Ulaid, from which they got the name Tyrone. The Irish pronunciation is closest to the anglicized forms Tyrowen and Tirowen.

History of Tyrone

Tyrone (formerly Tr Eoghain or Tirowen) used to be much larger than it is today. It included what is now eastern County Londonderry and extended all the way north to Lough Foyle. Between 1610 and 1620, the majority of what is now County Londonderry was separated from Tyrone and given to the Guilds of London so that they might develop commercial enterprises based on the region's abundant natural resources. The O'Neill clans and families, the most powerful of the Gaelic Irish lineages in Ulster, maintained their traditional stronghold in Tyrone well into the seventeenth century. The modern-day counties of Tyrone and Londonderry, along with the four baronies of West Inishowen, East Inishowen, Raphoe North, and Raphoe South in County Donegal, were all once part of the ancient principality of Tr Eoghain, the O'Neills' inherited territory.

Once Sir Cahir O'Doherty's soldiers destroyed Derry in 1608 during O'Doherty's Rebellion, they proceeded to plunder and burn large swaths of the country. In spite of this, O'Doherty's troops stayed away from the estates of the recently exiled Earl of Tyrone at Dungannon out of dread for their lives should Tyrone return from his isolation.

Geography of Tyrone

Tyrone is the biggest county in Northern Ireland, with 3,155 square kilometers (1,218 square miles). Lough Neagh is the largest lake in the British Isles, and the flat peatlands of East Tyrone line its shores. Gradually to the west, in the area around the Sperrin Mountains, the landscape becomes more mountainous, with Sawel Mountain, the highest point in the county, standing at 678 meters (2,224 ft). The county is 55 miles long from the Blackwater River's mouth at Lough Neagh to its westernmost tip near Carrickaduff hill (89 km). Annaghone claims to be the geographic center of Northern Ireland. Its area of 1,261 square miles (in 1900) is based on its width of 37.5 miles (60.4 km), which extends from its southern corner southeast of Fivemiletown to its northeastern corner near Meenard Mountain.

Land routes connect the county of Tyrone to its neighbors to the southwest in Fermanagh, to the south in Monaghan, to the southeast in Armagh, to the north in Londonderry, and to the west in Donegal. There is a shared boundary with County Antrim across Lough Neagh to the east. Among Ireland's 32 counties, it is eighth in land area and tenth in population. Among Ulster's 9 traditional counties, it ranks second in land area and fourth in population.