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DUNGANNON , a See also:market See also:town of Co. See also:Tyrone, See also:Ireland, in the See also:east See also:parliamentary See also:division, on an acclivity 8 m. W. of the See also:south-western See also:shore of Lough See also:Neagh. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (19o1) 3694. It is 103 M. N.N.W. from See also:Dublin by the See also:Great See also:Northern railway, and a See also:branch See also:line runs thence to See also:Cookstown. The only public buildings of See also:note are the See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, with an octagonal See also:spire, and a royal school founded in 1614 and settled in new buildings at the end of the 18th See also:century; it is now managed by the See also:county See also:Protestant See also:Board of See also:Education. Linens, See also:muslin and coarse earthenware are manufactured, tanning is prosecuted, and there is See also:trade in See also:corn and See also:timber. The See also:early See also:history of the See also:place is identified with the once powerful See also:family of the O'Neills, whose See also:chief See also:residence was here, and a large See also:rath or earthwork See also:north of the town was the See also:scene of the inauguration of their chiefs, but of the See also:castle and See also:abbey founded by this family there are no remains. In Dungannon the See also:independence of the Irish See also:parliament (to which the town returned two members) was proclaimed in 1782. The town was formerly corporate, and was a parliamentary See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough returning one member to the Imperial parliament until 1885.
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