Ballygawley
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Ballygawley is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated about 21 kilometres southwest of Dungannon and to the north of the intersection of the A5 Omagh to Armagh and the A4 Dungannon to Enniskillen roads. It is a compact village focused in an ‘L’ shape along Main Street and Church Street, with a second cluster of development to the southwest. The main cluster contains the majority of the village’s facilities, including two primary schools, a number of churches and a range of shops and services. The cluster of development to the southwest contains a secondary level school and housing. It had a population of 642 people in the 2001 Census.
Schools in the village include St Ciaran's High School and Ballygawley Primary School and Richmond Primary School. It also lies within the Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council area.
People
- Mickey Harte, the Gaelic football manager who led Tyrone to All Ireland glory in 2003 was born in Ballygawley in 1952.
- Ballygawley is located near to the ancestral homestead of Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States, where his maternal ancestors are linked.
Ballygawley is classified as a Small Village or Hamlet by the [NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)] (i.e. with population between 500 and 1,000 people). In the 2001 census (29 April, 2001) there were 642 people living in Ballygawley. Of these:2001 Census
- 26.7% were aged under 16 years and 19.3% were aged 60 and over
- 45.8% of the population were male and 54.2% were female
- 82.1% were from a Catholic background and 17.5% were from a Protestant background
- 4.0% of people aged 16-74 were unemployed
- 20 August 1988 - Jayson Burfitt (19), Richard Greener (21), Mark Norsworthy (18), Stephen Wilkinson (18), Jason Winter (19), Blair Bishop (19), Alexander Lewis (18) and Peter Bullock (21), all members of the British Army, were killed on their coach at Curr, near Ballygawley in a land mine attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
References
- Dungannon & South Tyrone Area Plan 2010
- [NI Conflict Archive on the Internet]
- [Mickey Harte]
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