Moneymore is in Northern Ireland, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6920°, -6.6700°.

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Moneymore

Also known as: Muine Mór

Moneymore in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Old house, Moneymore - geograph.org.uk - 2300917 — Kenneth Allen — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Typical visit: 1 h–2 h

Moneymore 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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Moneymore (from Irish Muine Mór, meaning 'large thicket or large hill') is a village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,897 in the 2011 census. It is situated within Mid-Ulster District. It is an example of a plantation village in Mid-Ulster built by the Drapers' Company of London.

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Background

History

There was an important battle fought near Moneymore called the battle of Móin Daire Lothair in the year 563 between the Northern Uí Néill and the Cruithin tribe which the Northern Uí Néill won. This battle is recorded in the Annals of Ulster and would have been a major event at the time. Much of Great Britain and Ireland would have descent from these two groups as there was notable mixing with Scotland over the years and the Uí Néill split to form the Southern Uí Néill in the Irish midlands around this time. During The Troubles, seven people were killed in or near Moneymore in violence related to the conflict, six of them by the Provisional IRA and one by the Ulster Defence Association.

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