County Tyrone - History

History

Historical population
Year Pop. ±%
1659 4,088
1821 261,865 +6305.7%
1831 304,468 +16.3%
1841 312,956 +2.8%
1851 255,661 −18.3%
1861 238,500 −6.7%
1871 215,766 −9.5%
1881 197,719 −8.4%
1891 171,401 −13.3%
1901 150,567 −12.2%
1911 142,665 −5.2%
1926 132,792 −6.9%
1937 127,586 −3.9%
1951 132,082 +3.5%
1961 133,919 +1.4%
1966 136,040 +1.6%
1971 139,073 +2.2%
1981 150,729 +8.4%
1991 156,284 +3.7%
2001 164,235 +5.1%

Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. 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. The ancient principality of Tír Eoghain, the inheritance of the O'Neills, included the whole of the present counties of Tyrone and Londonderry, and the four baronies of West Inishowen, East Inishowen, Raphoe North and Raphoe South in County Donegal.

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