Donemana

Donemana
  • Irish: Dún na Manach
  • Donemana
Donaghedy Parish Church
Donemana is located in Northern Ireland
Donemana
Donemana
Location within Northern Ireland
Population586 
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSTRABANE
Postcode districtBT82
Dialling code028, +44 28
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Tyrone
54°52′26″N 7°18′29″W / 54.874°N 7.308°W / 54.874; -7.308

Donemana (named after the townland of Dunnamanagh, from Irish Dún na Manach 'stronghold of the monks')[1][2] is a village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is 7 miles or 11 kilometres north-east of Strabane, on the banks of the Burn Dennett and at the foothills of the Sperrins. In 2001, it was the largest of the thirteen villages in the former Strabane District Council area and it had a population of 586 in the Census that year.[3]

Other anglicised spellings of its name include Dun[n]amana[gh] and Don[n]amana[gh].

  1. ^ "Dunnamanagh". Place Names NI. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
  2. ^ Placenames Database of Ireland
  3. ^ "Census 2011 Population Statistics for Donemana Settlement". Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.