Tandragee

Tandragee
Town
The Square, Tandragee (2009)
Tandragee is located in Northern Ireland
Tandragee
Location within Northern Ireland
Population3,545 (2021 Census)
Irish grid referenceJ030462
• Belfast25 mi (40 km)
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCRAIGAVON
Postcode districtBT62
Dialling code028
PoliceNorthern Ireland
FireNorthern Ireland
AmbulanceNorthern Ireland
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Armagh
54°21′22″N 6°24′54″W / 54.356°N 6.415°W / 54.356; -6.415

Tandragee (from Irish Tóin re Gaoith, meaning 'backside to the wind')[2] is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is built on a hillside overlooking the Cusher River, in the civil parish of Ballymore and the historic barony of Orior Lower.[3]

Earlier spellings of the name include Tanderagee and Tonregee.[2] It had a population of 3,545 people in the 2021 census.[4]

  1. ^ Tandragee Archived 29 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine. Placenames Database of Ireland.
  2. ^ a b Place Names NI
  3. ^ "Tandragee". IreAtlas Townlands Database. Archived from the original on 28 June 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference 2021pop was invoked but never defined (see the help page).