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6 unusual facts about Aughnacloy


Aghaloo O'Neills GAC

The club is based in Aughnacloy and Caledon which encompasses the parish after which the club is named, Aghaloo, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Aughnacloy, County Tyrone

James Young Malley, the son of an Aughnacloy farmer and merchant, was the eldest of three brothers to fly with RAF Bomber Command.

Aughnacloy Golf Club – one of the founder clubs of the Golfing Union of Ireland in 1890; reformed in 1994 and currently based at Lissenderry just outside the village

Gerry McGeough

Brush, who is now a councillor for the Democratic Unionist Party in Ballygawley, was delivering mail in his job as a postman near Aughnacloy when he was shot.

Glenanne gang

20 February 1973: An armed robbery on a CIE bus in Aughnacloy, which caused approximately £12,000 worth of damage to the bus.

John Givan

He was J.P. for Aughnacloy and chairman of the Aughnacloy town commissioners.


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Seán McCaughey

Born in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, McCaughey was Adjutant-General of the IRA and Officer Commanding (O/C) of its Northern Command.


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