County Tyrone

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County Tyrone (: Contae Thír Eoghain) is the second largest of the nine of  and the largest of the six counties of. It has an area of 3,155 (1,218 ).

The county borders the Northern Ireland counties of, to the south-east, , to the south-west and to the north-east. The county also borders to the east. The borders with the are  to the south and  to the north-west.

Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as, and comprised part of modern day east of the. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on natural resources located there. Tyrone was the traditional stronghold of the various O'Neill clans and families, the strongest of the Gaelic Irish families in Ulster, surviving into the seventeenth century.

District Councils
Tyrone is split into four districts:



Towns
The county town of Tyrone is. the next largest towns are, and  respectively. Other towns include, , , , , , and.

Sports
The major sports in Tyrone are. is more widely played than. The football side has had considerable success since the turn of the century winning two  (in 2003 and 2005) and two  (in 2002 and 2005). Underage teams have also had considerable successes on the field at both provincial and national level.

Notable residents

 * , Irish Country Music Singer - Ireland's Queen Of Country Music
 * (1747-1812), Publisher of the first American daily newspaper the Pennsylvania Packet in 1784, was also the printer of the American.
 * , (1797-1864), born in Annaloghan, first of.
 * , former winning Tyrone captain and second top scorer in Senior Ulster Championship football.
 * , current captain of the Tyrone senior football team.
 * , singer and broadcaster on BBC Radio.
 * , former.
 * , current captain of the Northern Ireland football team and also plays for Fulham.