Tyrone, an inland county of Ulster province, Ireland; is bounded NE. by county Londonderry, E. by Lough Neagh, SE. by county Armagh, S. by county Monaghan, SW. by county Fermanagh, and NW. by county Donegal; greatest length, NW. and SE., 48 miles; greatest breadth, NE. and SW., 38 miles; average breadth, 28 miles; area, 806,658 acres (31,403 water), or 379 per cent of the total area of Ireland; population 197,719, of whom 55.75 per cent, are Roman Catholics, 22.74 Episcopalians, 19.75 Presbyterians, and 1.78 Methodists. The surface in general is hilly and irregular; it rises into mountains of about 2000 ft. on the NE. border, and becomes level towards Lough Neagh on the E. The soil in the lower districts is very fertile and highly cultivated. Coal is worked near Lough Neagh and in the neighbourhood of Dungannon; marble is quarried near the boundary with Monaghan; old red sandstone occurs in the district around Omagh; mica slate and limestone prevail among the mountains. The chief mfrs. are linens, woollens, and coarse earthenware. The principal rivers are the Foyle, the Blackwater, the Mourne, and the Ballinderry. The county comprises 8 baronies – Clogher, Dungannon (Lower, Middle, and Upper), Omagh (East and West), Strabane (Lower and Upper); 46 parishes; and the towns of Omagh (the capital), Strabane, Dungannon, Cookstown, and Aughnacloy.
– John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)
Gray’s Printing Press – National Trust
49 Main Street
Strabane BT82 8AU
028 7188 0055
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/grays-printing-press
An 18th-century printing press, where John Dunlap, the printer of the American Declaration of Independence, and James Wilson, grandfather of President Woodrow Wilson, learnt their trade. There is a collection of 19th-century hand-printing machines, as well as an audio-visual display.
Ulster American Folk Park
Mellon Road, Castletown
Omagh BT78 5QY
028 8224 3292
The Ulster American Folk Park tells the story of emigration from Ulster to America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Here you will find fully furnished Old and New World buildings with costumed demonstrators going about their everyday tasks.
Collections: The museum’s collection consists of original and replica Ulster and American dwelling houses and shops with original furniture and fittings from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. There is a substantial social history collection of domestic, craft and agricultural objects in storage and on display in the exhibit buildings and permanent exhibition, including a small textile collection of Ulster and American patchwork and various miscellaneous costume and linen items.