County Tyrone · Ulster
Omagh
An Ómaigh
'the virgin plain' or 'the seat'
The story
The county town of Tyrone, where the Drumragh and Camowen meet to form the Strule. In August 1998, months after the Good Friday Agreement, a car bomb killed 29 people and unborn twins — the single deadliest attack of the Troubles, and one that hardened the peace rather than breaking it.
Worth seeing nearby
- Knockmany — Fionn and Oonagh’s hill · Folklore gives this hilltop to Fionn mac Cumhaill and his wife Oonagh. Older by far is what is actually on it: a passage tomb of about 3000 BC, thirteen sandstone uprights carved with spirals, circles and zigzags. The name is Cnoc mBáine — Báine’s hill, for a goddess of whiteness later folded into Áine.
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