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unusual facts about Caledon, County Tyrone



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.

Ardboe O'Donovan Rossa GAC

Cumann Lúthchleas Gael Ard Bó Uí Dhonnabhain Rossa (Ardboe O'Donovan Rossa in English) is a club based in east County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, close to the shores of Lough Neagh.

Caledon Folk Festival

The Festival was founded in February 1996 by Norm Hacking, Christian Tobin and Michael Tobin as a way to generate a more positive cultural atmosphere in the Caledon area.

Caledon State Park

The property was initially owned by the Alexander brothers, founders of the city of Alexandria, and was established in 1659 as Caledon Plantation.

Caledon, County Tyrone

The townland contains one Scheduled Historic Monument: a Beam engine (grid ref: H7581 4521).

Count of Tyrone

In 1542, the O'Neill was Conn Bacach O'Neill, younger son of Conn Mor O'Neill in Tyrone; he resigned the position of the O'Neill, and accepted the Earldom of Tyrone; by the patent, his successor was to be his eldest, but illegitimate, son Ferdoragh, who took the name of Matthew, and Matthew's heirs male.

Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon

He was the first governor on the Cape's cession to United Kingdom; the Caledon River and the district Caledon, Western Cape there are named after him.

Earl of Caledon

Another member of the Alexander family was Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, who was the third son of the 4th Earl of Caledon.

Eithne Coyle

Following the signing of the treaty she toured County Donegal, County Londonderry and County Tyrone and found that many of the local branches had lost much of their membership and was forced to reorganise the movement in Ulster as a more streamlined model.

Gerry McGeough

According to Tim Pat Coogan, Gerry McGeough was beaten by RUC interrogators at Cookstown barracks, Co. Tyrone in 1977, and was deported from Britain following a brief visit to London in 1978.

Grey Egerton baronets

Sir Reginald Arthur Egerton, another son of the aforementioned Major-General Caledon Richard Egerton (d. 1930), was Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General, Surveyor to the General Post Office, London, and Secretary to the General Post Office, Dublin.

Guy Rutledge

Sir John Guy Rutledge (18 March 1872 in Aughnahoo, County Tyrone, Ireland - 15 February 1930 in Rangoon, Burma) was a British judge and colonial official in Lower Burma.

Hurontario Street

Between Caledon and Orangeville, it is part of busy Highway 10, which leaves the Hurontario Street alignment in Orangeville to head for Owen Sound.

Irish coffee

Although different variations of coffee cocktails pre-date the now-classic Irish coffee by at least 100 years, the original Irish coffee was invented and named by Joe Sheridan, a head chef at Foynes, County Limerick but originally from Castlederg, County Tyrone.

James G. Douglas

He was the eldest of nine children of John Douglas (1861–1931), originally of Grange, County Tyrone, and his wife, Emily (1864–1933), daughter of John and Mary Mitton of Gortin, Coalisland, County Tyrone.

Jimmy McMenemy

James' father John curiously adopted the name 'McMenamin' after he moved to Scotland from County Tyrone.

Michelle Gildernew

Gildernew is one of ten siblings from a Republican family based at the "Gildernew farm complex" (as described on Ordnance Survey maps) in County Tyrone.

Mitch Harper

William Harper had immigrated to the United States from County Tyrone, Ireland.

Net1

Net1 delivers broadband services to homes and businesses using FWA (Fixed Wireless access) from base stations in Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan, Fingal and parts of Armagh, Westmeath, Tyrone, Longford and Fermanagh counties.

Nicholas Alexander

Nicholas Alexander, 7th Earl of Caledon (born 1955), son of Denis Alexander, 6th Earl of Caledon

Northern Ireland Housing Executive

In June 1968, Dungannon Rural District Council was accused of discriminating against a Catholic family when it allocated a new council house in the Caledon area to a young single Protestant woman with links to a local Unionist politician.

Overberg branch line

Two extensions of the line from Caledon were possible: eastwards towards Riviersonderend and Swellendam, with the ultimate possibility of reaching Mossel Bay; or southwards towards Napier and Caledon.

From Botrivier it runs across the Overberg plain through Caledon to a junction at Klipdale.

The Overberg branch line is a railway line in the Western Cape, South Africa, that runs from Cape Town through Somerset West and Caledon to Bredasdorp.

Palgrave, Ontario

Palgrave is home to the Caledon Equestrian Park, which will play host to the equestrian portion of the 2015 Pan American Games.

Paranomus

The species occur mainly in mountainous areas of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces from the Cederberg to Uitenhage, with the highest numbers found in the districts of Caledon, Worcester and Swellendam.

Peaks and Valleys

He first stood at Pin Oak's stud farm in Kentucky before being sent to Gardiner Farms in Caledon, Ontario.

Port Clarence

The area has a strong history of immigration from Ireland, with many travellers settling in the village between 1900 to 1920, particularly from counties Tyrone, Monaghan and Wicklow.

Richard Rive

Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class coloured District Six of Cape Town.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher

The original cathedral was in the village of Clogher in County Tyrone, site of a monastery founded in 454 by St. Macartan, who was appointed bishop by St. Patrick in the 5th century.

Second Battle of Heligoland Bight

It was during this battle that Able Seaman John Henry Carless of HMS Caledon won a posthumous Victoria Cross for his bravery in manning a gun despite mortal wounds.

Sir Havelock Charles, 1st Baronet

He was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, the sixth son of David Hughes Charles MD and Annie Elizabeth Allen, and named after Sir Henry Havelock, who had died two months earlier.

Somerset East

Lord Charles Somerset, taking up the ideas promulgated by Cradock and Caledon that there should be a settlement on the Eastern Frontier, initiated a plan for an experimental farm in the area.

South African Class 14C 4-8-2

Some went to the Western Cape where they banked up the Hex River Pass from De Doorns and later worked with Class 19C locomotives across Sir Lowry's Pass to Caledon and Bredasdorp in the Overberg.

South African Class 19C 4-8-2

From here they worked on branchlines such as those from Cape Town to Saldanha, along the long branchline via Klawer to Bitterfontein, and across Sir Lowry's Pass to Caledon and Protem in the Overberg.

Staples baronets

It was created on 18 July 1628 for Thomas Staples, who later served as High Sheriff of County Tyrone.

Stewart baronets

He was Attorney-General for Ireland from 1799 to 1803 and represented County Tyrone in the British House of Commons.

Stronge baronets

He served as chief magistrate of police at Dublin, and solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue for Ireland, and was also a Justice of the Peace for County Armagh and County Tyrone as well as Deputy Lieutenant of County Armagh.

Sylvia Jones

She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Dufferin—Caledon.

Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill

Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill was from the townland of Derrylasky in the parish of Donaghmore, County Tyrone, and lived in the first half of the 18th century.

Urney Chocolates

Urney Chocolates was established in 1919 by Eileen and Harry Gallagher at their home, Urney House, in the parish of Urney, County Tyrone.

Wilhelm Langschmidt

Wilhelm Heinrich Franz Ludwig Langschmidt, or Willem Langschmidt, (10 January 1805 Grabow, Gustrow - 5 October 1866 Caledon) was a German-born South African painter and drawing master of 59 Long Street, Cape Town.


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