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unusual facts about Granville, 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.

Andrew Ziolkowski

After finishing school he worked as a Process Worker for Alcan in Granville and as a Steelworks Tradesman's Assistant for BHP in Wollongong.

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.

Catherine Killigrew

Her great-grandson, Granville Elliott, spent much time and trouble trying to prove that Catherine had legally married Richard Eliot, the wayward son of Sir John Eliot, and had a son and legal heir George Elliott (Granville's grandfather) by him around 1636.

Charles Granville

Arthur Ransome had left his previous publisher Martin Secker for Granville, who promised him better returns and a guaranteed and steady income.

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.

Daniel Delany

Delany College, Granville, NSW, Australia (a secondary school) is named after Daniel Delany.

Daredevils of the Red Circle

An escaped criminal, known as Harry Crowl, but preferring to be called by his prison number 39013 (pronounced Thirty Nine - Oh - Thirteen), seeks revenge on the man who sent him to prison, millionaire philanthropist Horace Granville.

Earl of Bath

Granville was the only son of Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, by his second wife Isabella, sister of Henry de Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham.

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.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Granville also followed Dryden in adapting Shakespeare; The Jew of Venice (1701) was a successful updating of The Merchant of Venice.

Georges Vérez

The Granville in the Manche war memorial features a representation of a soldier worked in bronze by Vérez.

Golf de Granville Baie du Mont St Michel

The Golf de Granville Baie du Mont St Michel is a 27 hole golf course located at Bréville-sur-Mer (Manche), approximately 4 miles north of Granville, Normandy, France.

Granville Van Dusen

Granville Van Dusen (born March 16, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota) is an American stage, screen, and voice actor who portrayed Race Bannon in the 1986 television series The New Adventures of Jonny Quest, Jonny's Golden Quest, Jonny Quest vs. The Cyber Insects, and eight episodes of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

Granville, Massachusetts

However, perhaps due to the rocky soil in New England, the settlers eventually migrated west, some establishing the town of Granville, Ohio.

Granville, Wisconsin

The remainder was consolidated with the City of Milwaukee after referenda held in both jurisdictions on April 3, 1956 approved the move; but on July 12, 1956, the Town Board of Granville passed a motion to repeal the ordinance under which the April referendum had been held, and the matter ended up in the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which finally ruled that the consolidation had been lawfully approved; and the Town of Granville had ceased to exist.

Granville was settled in the late 1830s and 1840s by a group of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) immigrants who had formerly lived in Telford, Pennsylvania, led by Samuel Wambold.

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.

Haldane Stewart

He scored 142 at Lord's against the M.C.C. in 1897 and scored 203 not out for Blackheath against Granville, Lee.

Henri de la Rochejaquelein

He marched onto Granville, took Avranches on November 12, but failed to seize Granville and retreated to Angers in order to cross the Loire.

Henry John Cambie

I had to lay the first sidewalk on Georgia at my own expense, as the city would not do it, and when I got the telephone the company dunned me for more than a year to pay for the poles from Granville Street down to my place, as they told me that no one else in that generation would ever go to live west of Granville Street.

Hubert Howe Bancroft

Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio to Azariah Ashley Bancroft and Lucy Howe Bancroft.

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.

Israel Barlow

Israel Barlow (September 13, 1806 – November 1, 1883) was born in Granville, Massachusetts and died in Bountiful, Utah Territory.

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.

John Deighton

This bar was demolished when the townsite of Granville was established and was afterwards rebuilt as Deighton House.

John Granville

"He told his mom several times ... that it's dangerous, what he's doing, but he wouldn't want to be doing anything else," said U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, who spoke with Granville's mother, Jane Granville, after her son's death.

John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge

Colonel John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge PC (12 April 1665 – 3 December 1707), styled The Honourable John Granville until 1703, was an English soldier, landowner and politician.

Lemuel Haynes

Lemuel Haynes House, his home for the last 11 years of his life in South Granville, New York, when he was pastor of South Granville Congregational Church was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.

Marine biology dredge

The first marine biology dredge was designed by Otto Friedrich Müller and in 1830 the results of two dredging expeditions undertaken by Henri Milne-Edwards and his friend Jean Victoire Audouin during 1826 and 1828 in the neighbourhood of Granville were published.

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.

Nalin Seneviratne

General Ganegoda Appuhamelage Don Granville Nalin Seneviratne, VSV, ndc, SLE (August 25, 1931 - August 12, 2009) was a Sri Lankan Army officer.

Neath Abbey

Neath Abbey was established in 1129 AD when Sir Richard de Granville, one of the Twelve Knights of Glamorgan, gave 8,000 acres (32 km²) of his estate in Glamorgan, Wales to Savigniac monks from western Normandy.

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.

New South Wales 85 class locomotive

The New South Wales 85 class were a class of 10 electric locomotives built by Comeng, Granville between May 1979 and July 1980 for the State Rail Authority.

North Carolina Highway 308

Established in 1933 as a new primary routing, it went from US 258/NC 12, near Rich Square, to NC 30 (today's US 13 Business), at Granville Street in Windsor.

Northern Plains Railroad

The Mohall Central Railroad agreed to purchase and then let the Northern Plains Railroad operate over both a 20 mile (32 kilometer) portion of the Drayton Subdivision between Honeyford, North Dakota, and Voss, North Dakota, and a 43 mile (66 kilometer) portion of the Granville Subdivision between milepost 5.25 (north of Granville, North Dakota) and Mohall, North Dakota.

Pièces pittoresques

In 1880, while on a convalescent holiday at the coastal resort of Saint-Pair (near Granville), Chabrier composed what were to be called Pièces pittoresques.

Richard Sammons

Sammons was born in Columbus, Ohio and received his bachelor’s degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio in 1983.

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.

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.

Stewart baronets

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

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.

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers' Advocate

The remaining owners of The Cumberland Argus purchased their rival publication The Cumberland Mercury, along with The River Times, a Ryde newspaper and The Weekly Advance, from Granville, in April 1895 and incorporated all three papers into The Cumberland Argus with issue Vol.

Thomas Higgons

1661, Bridget Leach, widow of Simon Leach of Cadleigh, Devon, and daughter of Sir Bevil Granville of Stow, Cornwall, and had three sons (George, Thomas and Bevil) and three daughters.

William H. Hughes

William Henry Hughes (September 30, 1864 in Chapmanville, Venango County, Pennsylvania – November 11, 1903 in Granville, Washington County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Zebulon R. Shipherd

He resumed the practice of his profession in Granville and was a trustee of Middlebury College (in Middlebury, Vermont) from 1819 to 1841.


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