Omagh, Northern Ireland

High Street, Omagh, Northern Ireland
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Omagh is a town in County Tyrone, on the western part of Northern Ireland. The town has a population of 20,000.

Omagh is the anglicised form of Óghmaigh, an Irish name meaning "virgin plain". The town traces its history back to Ad 729, when a Franciscan friary was built there. The modern town of Omagh was established in 1610. In 1768 it took over from Dungannon the role of county town for County Tyrone.

Omagh was not spared the Troubles of Northern Irealand. In 1998, 29 people there were milled when a bomb planted by the Real Irish Republican Army exploded in the town centre. As recently as April 2011, another bomb blast - this time claimed by a group of former Provisional IRA members - killed a police constable in Omagh.

Visiting Omagh

You can reach Omagh by bus from either Belfast or Derry.

Omagh, Northern Ireland
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Places of Interest in Omagh

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