Moygashel

Human settlement in Northern Ireland

List of places: UK; Northern Ireland; Tyrone

54°29′04″N 6°45′11″W / 54.48452°N 6.75296°W / 54.48452; -6.75296

Moygashel (from Irish Maigh gCaisil, meaning 'plain of the stone fort')^[1]^[2] is a small village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is near the southern edge of Dungannon. Although the village's name is pronounced /mɔɪˈɡæʃəl/ (moy-gashel), the trademark of the Irish linen named after it is pronounced /ˈmɔɪɡəʃəl/ (moy-ga-shell).^[3] Moygashel is predominantly Protestant with 93% of its population recorded as being Protestant in a 2021 census. 2% of the village is Catholic and 5% is recorded as "other" or "none".^[4]^[5]

People

One of the bombers killed in the Miami Showband massacre, Wesley Somerville—who was an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) member—was from Moygashel.^[6] He is commemorated by a plaque and banner in the village.^[7]

References

^ Placenames NI Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
^ Placenames Database of Ireland
^ Daniel Jones, Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary (Dent, Dutton: 13th ed., 1967), p. 320.
^ "NISRA Area Explorer".
^ "NISRA Flexible Table Builder".
^ The Post.IE Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Google Maps".