Moygashel

Not to be confused with Moycashel, County Westmeath.

Moygashel
Moygashel is located in Northern Ireland
Moygashel
Location within Northern Ireland
Irish grid referenceH809603
• Belfast40 mi (64 km)
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDUNGANNON
Postcode districtBT71
Dialling code028
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Tyrone
54°29′04″N 6°45′11″W / 54.48452°N 6.75296°W / 54.48452; -6.75296

Moygashel (from Irish Maigh gCaisil, meaning 'plain of the stone fort')[1][2] is a small village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is near the southern edge of Dungannon. Although the village's name is pronounced /mɔɪˈɡæʃəl/ (moy-gashel), the trademark of the Irish linen named after it is pronounced /ˈmɔɪɡəʃəl/ (moy-ga-shell).[3] Moygashel is predominantly Protestant with 93% of its population recorded as being Protestant in a 2021 census. 2% of the village is Catholic and 5% is recorded as "other" or "none".[4][5]

People

One of the bombers killed in the Miami Showband massacre, Wesley Somerville—who was an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) member—was from Moygashel.[6] He is commemorated by a plaque and banner in the village.[7]

References

  1. ^ Placenames NI Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland
  3. ^ Daniel Jones, Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary (Dent, Dutton: 13th ed., 1967), p. 320.
  4. ^ "NISRA Area Explorer".
  5. ^ "NISRA Flexible Table Builder".
  6. ^ The Post.IE Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ "Google Maps".