| Tullyhogue | |
|---|---|
 Halfway Bar in Tullyhogue | |
  Location within Northern Ireland | |
| District | |
| County | |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | COOKSTOWN |
| Postcode district | BT80 |
| Dialling code | 028 |
| UK Parliament | |
| NI Assembly | |
Tullyhogue, also called Tullaghoge[1] or Tullahoge[2][3] (from Irish Tulach Óc[4] 'hill of youth'[5]), is a small village and townland[6] in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is within the civil parish of Desertcreat and is about two miles or three kilometres south of Cookstown.
Nearby Tullyhogue Fort was the crowning place of the kings of Tír Eoghain until the Flight of the Earls in 1607.[7]
- ^ a b Placenames Database of Ireland
- ^ Cookstown District Council minutes Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine (8 April 2008)
- ^ The Development of the Irish Language: Part 5, Culture Northern Ireland
- ^ Byrne, F.J. (2001) [1973]. Irish Kings and High-Kings (2nd ed.). Dublin: Four Courts Press. p. 27. ISBN 9781851821969.
- ^ "Tullyhogue Fort". Triskelle. Retrieved 1 December 2007. Triskelle uses the variant spelling Telach Oc
- ^ Placenames NI Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Connolly, S. J., ed. (2007). The Oxford Companion to Irish History (2 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 584–5. doi:10.1093/acref/9780199234837.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-923483-7.