Moneyglass
Moneyglass (from Irish: Muine Glas) is a small village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Moneyglass is near Toome and Lough Beg. It had a population of 103 people (38 households) in the 2011 Census.
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Cookstown is a town and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the fourth largest town in the county and had a population of nearly 11,000 people in the 2001 Census. It is one of the main towns in the area of Mid-Ulster. It was founded around 1620 when the townlands in the area were leased by an English ecclesiastical lawyer, Dr. Alan Cooke, from the Archbishop of Armagh, who had been granted the lands after the Flight of the Earls during the Plantation of Ulster. It was one of the main centres of the linen industry West of the River Bann, and until 1956, the processes of flax spinning, weaving, bleaching and beetling were carried out in the town.
Population: 11,081
Latitude: 54° 38' 34.98" N
Longitude: -6° 44' 45.42" W
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Bellaghy
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Sperrins
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Craigavon Borough Council
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Beaghmore
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Ulster American Folk Park
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Carrickmore
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Attack on Ballygawley barracks
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Antrim Castle
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Tobermore
Tobermore (locally [ˌtʌbərˈmoːr], named after the townland of Tobermore) is a small village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It lies 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south-south-west of Maghera and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north-west of Magherafelt. Tobermore l…
Tullyhogue Fort
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North Eastern Education and Library Board
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Castle Upton
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Aghagallon
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