Tullyhogue

Tullyhogue
Irish: *Tulaigh Óg^[1]*
Tullyhogue Irish: Tulaigh Óg;
	Halfway Bar in Tullyhogue
	Location within Northern Ireland
District	Mid Ulster;
County	County Tyrone;
Country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	COOKSTOWN
Postcode district	BT80
Dialling code	028
UK Parliament	Mid Ulster;
NI Assembly	Mid Ulster;
	List of places UK Northern Ireland Tyrone 54°36′22″N 6°43′26″W / 54.606°N 6.724°W

Tullyhogue, also called Tullaghoge^[1] or Tullahoge^[2]^[3] (from Irish Tulach Óc^[4] 'hill of youth'^[5]), is a small village and townland^[6] in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is within the civil parish of Desertcreat and is about two miles or three kilometres south of Cookstown.

Nearby Tullyhogue Fort was the crowning place of the kings of Tír Eoghain until the Flight of the Earls in 1607.^[7]

Notable people

Alexander Carson (1776—1844) – Irish Baptist pastor and writer. Carson attended school in Tullyhogue.^[8]

^ ^a ^b Placenames Database of Ireland
^ Cookstown District Council minutes Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine (8 April 2008)
^ The Development of the Irish Language: Part 5, Culture Northern Ireland
^ Byrne, F.J. (2001) [1973]. Irish Kings and High-Kings (2nd ed.). Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 27. ISBN 9781851821969.
^ "Tullyhogue Fort". Triskelle. Retrieved 1 December 2007. Triskelle uses the variant spelling Telach Oc
^ Placenames NI Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
^ Connolly, S. J., ed. (2007). The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 584–5. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199234837.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-923483-7.
^ Clary, Ian Hugh (2009). Murphy, Gannon (ed.). "Alexander Carson (1776-1844): 'Jonathan Edwards of the Nineteenth Century'". American Theological Inquiry. 2 (2): 45.

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