Carrickmore

Carrickmore
  • Irish: An Charraig Mhór
  • Carmen
Village
Carrickmore is located in Northern Ireland
Carrickmore
Location within Northern Ireland
Population612 (2011)
Irish grid referenceH630574
• Belfast52 mi (84 km)
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townOMAGH
Postcode districtBT79
Dialling code028
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Tyrone
54°36′N 7°03′W / 54.600°N 7.050°W / 54.600; -7.050
St Columbkille Roman Catholic church, Carrickmore.

Carrickmore (from Irish an Charraig Mhór, meaning 'the big rock'[1]) is a small town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Omagh East, the civil parish of Termonmaguirk and the Roman Catholic Parish of Termonmaguirc between Cookstown, Dungannon and Omagh.[2] It had a population of 612 in the 2001 Census. In the 2011 Census 2,330 people lived in the Termon Ward, which covers the Carrickmore and Creggan areas.

  1. ^ "Carrickmore". Place Names NI. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Carrickmore". IreAtlas Townland Database. Retrieved 10 April 2015.