Tyrone - Definition

County Tyrone
Area:	3,155 km²
Population:	166,516 (2001 census)
Province:	Ulster

This article is about County Tyrone. For other uses of the name, see Tyrone (disambiguation).

Tyrone (Tír Eoghain in Irish) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. Area: 3,155 km² (1,218 square miles).

Tyrone is the largest county in Northern Ireland and is split into four districts:

• Cookstown
• Dungannon
• Omagh
• Strabane

The county town of Tyrone is Omagh. Other towns include Castlederg and Coalisland. Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, comprising part of modern day Co. Derry, east of the Foyle river.

Map from www.irelandstory.com

	Traditional counties of Ireland
Connacht: Galway | Leitrim | Mayo | Roscommon | Sligo
Munster: Clare | Cork | Kerry | Limerick | Tipperary | Waterford
Leinster: Carlow | Dublin | Kildare | Kilkenny | Laois | Longford | Louth | Meath | Offaly | Westmeath | Wexford | Wicklow
Ulster: Antrim * | Armagh * | Cavan | Donegal | Down * | Fermanagh * | Londonderry * | Monaghan | Tyrone *
* Counties in Northern Ireland (other counties are in the Republic of Ireland)
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