Fintona is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4979°, -7.3177°.

Natural landmarks · Northern Ireland

Fintona

Also known as: Fionntamhnach

Fintona in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Fintona is a place of interest in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Fintona (; from Irish Fionntamhnach, meaning 'white field'), is a village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. Its population at the 2021 census was 1,217.

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Background

History

The local area has been known to have had human activity for around 4000 years; there are many burial places, standing stones, stone circles and graves in the area around Fintona. The current village is developed from an Uí Néill fortress built in 1431 and is one of Tyrone's oldest settlements. Some time after the Plantation of Ulster, by 1668 the dominant landowners in the area was the Eccles Family and their Manor House, which was located in what is nowadays Fintona Golf Club and Ecclesville Park on the Ecclesville Demesne, was built in 1703. As in many other parts of Ireland during the 19th Century, the expansion of the railway network saw the village connected with the rest of the…

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