Wrecks and historic events in County Tyrone
The Discover Alone map has 16 wrecks and historic events in County Tyrone, Ireland. Below are the 16 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Omagh bombingtruck bombingAt 3:10 PM on August 15, 1998, a maroon Vauxhall Cavalier packed with 500 pounds of explosives tore through Omagh…
Coagh ambushambushBritish Special Air Service troops killed three Provisional IRA volunteers in Coagh on 3 June 1991. The men had come to…
Clonoe ambushterrorist attackOn 16 February 1992, four Provisional IRA volunteers died in a graveyard at Clonoe after the Special Air Service…
BATTLE SITE: BATTLE OF THE FORDS, Central crossing, 1689 in Magirr; Town Parks OF StrabaneBATTLE SITE: BATTLE OF THE FORDS, Central crossing, 1689Battle of the Fords, 1689: central crossing in Magirr, County Tyrone. A ford is a knife-edge of a road: half a mile of…
Battle of Knockavoe BattlefieldBattlefieldKnockavoe Battlefield in County Tyrone is a recorded battlefield where local land still carries the shape of a…
Battle of BenburbMajor battlefieldOn 5 June 1646, exhausted Scottish Covenanters marched twenty-four kilometres into a kill zone, believing they were…
MEDIEVAL PARISH CHURCH; GRAVEYARD also SITE OF C13th BATTLE: CARNTEEL CHURCH in CarnteelMEDIEVAL PARISH CHURCH; GRAVEYARD also SITE OF C13th BATTLE: CARNTEEL CHURCHCarnTeel Church stands in County Tyrone as a scheduled medieval parish church and graveyard, marked also as the site of…
BATTLE SITE: BATTLE OF THE FORDS, Northern crossing, 1689 in Ballydonaghy; Greenlaw; LeckpatrickBATTLE SITE: BATTLE OF THE FORDS, Northern crossing, 1689Battle of the Fords, Northern crossing, 1689. Ballydonaghy, Greenlaw and Leckpatrick still hold the shape of that…
BATTLE SITE: in 789 AD & BATTLE OF THE FORDS , Southern crossing, 1689 in Clady; DonnygowanBATTLE SITE: in 789 AD & BATTLE OF THE FORDS , Southern crossing, 1689Donnygowan and Clady both recorded battles: 789 AD and the southern crossing of 1689. The land keeps two wounds…- Teebane bombingbomb attackOn 17 January 1992, a roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying fourteen construction workers returning from repairing a…
- 1992 Coalisland riotsriotOn 12 and 17 May 1992, Coalisland civilians clashed with Parachute Regiment and King's Own Scottish Borderers soldiers…
- 1991 Cappagh killingsshootingAt 10.30 pm on 3 March 1991, Ulster Volunteer Force gunmen drove into Cappagh, County Tyrone, and killed four people at…
- 1990 British Army Gazelle shootdownaviation accidentOn 11 February 1990, an unarmed Gazelle helicopter supporting a ground patrol took heavy machine-gun fire from the…
- Ballygawley bus bombingbomb attackOn the dark road near Ballygawley, a roadside bomb struck a soldier bus at midnight, killing eight men and wounding…
- Attack on Ballygawley barracksbattleMortars and machine guns tore through Ballygawley on a winter night, killing two officers and reducing the barracks to…
- 1979 Bessbrook bombingbomb attack1979 Bessbrook bombing is a bomb attack in County Tyrone, Ireland. Maybe it began with a whistle in a kitchen, not a…