Pomeroy, County Tyrone

Pomeroy
Pomeroy Presbyterian Church
Pomeroy is located in Northern Ireland
Pomeroy
Pomeroy
Location within Northern Ireland
Population788 (2011 Census)
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDungannon
Postcode districtBT70
Dialling code028
UK Parliament
NI Assembly
List of places
UK
Northern Ireland
Tyrone
54°35′N 6°56′W / 54.59°N 6.93°W / 54.59; -6.93

Pomeroy is a small village and civil parish in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is in the townland of Cavanakeeran,[2] about 8.5 miles (14 km) from Cookstown, 9 miles (14 km) from Dungannon and 16 miles (26 km) from Omagh. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 788 people.[3]

Pomeroy is atop a large hill that dominates the surrounding countryside. From the Cookstown end, the road through the village gradually climbs a gradient up to a village square, The Diamond. The village is surrounded by the Pomeroy Hills. The surrounding countryside is a mixture of moorland and bog land. Stone age and Bronze Age cairns dot the landscape. Pomeroy is the closest settlement to the geographical centre of Ulster.[4]

  1. ^ Too many names for Pomeroy Archived 8 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine Belfast Telegraph.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey Ireland: Online map viewer (choose "historic" to see townland boundaries) Archived 29 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Census 2011 Population Statistics for Pomeroy Settlement". Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). Archived from the original on 4 May 2021. Retrieved 4 May 2021. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 Archived 28 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine. © Crown copyright.
  4. ^ "Ireland Geographical Facts, Figures and Physical Extremities". Archived from the original on 19 December 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2015.