Omagh is the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
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16 Facts About Omagh
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Name Omagh is an anglicisation of the Irish name an Oghmaigh, meaning "the virgin plain".
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In 1768 Omagh replaced Dungannon as the county town of County Tyrone.
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Omagh acquired railway links to Londonderry with the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway in 1852, Enniskillen in 1853 and Belfast in 1861.
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Omagh came into the international focus of the media on 15 August 1998, when the Real Irish Republican Army exploded a car bomb in the town centre.
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Omagh has a history of flooding and suffered major floods in 1909,1929,1954,1969,1987,1999 and, most recently, 12 June 2007.
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Ulster American Folk Park near Omagh includes the cottage where Thomas Mellon was born in 1813, before emigrating to Pennsylvania, in the United States when he was five.
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Omagh has over 20 playgrounds for children, and a large amount of green open area for all the public.
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Omagh Leisure Complex is a large public amenity, near the Grange Park and is set in 11 hectares of landscaped grounds and features a leisure centre, boating pond, astroturf pitch and cycle paths.
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Omagh is the main retail centre for Tyrone, as well as the West of Ulster, due to its central location.
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Shopping areas in Omagh include the Main Street, Great Northern Road Retail Park and the Showgrounds Retail Park on Sedan Avenue in the town centre.
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Omagh has a number of educational institutions at different levels.
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Omagh was the headquarters of the Western Education and Library Board, located at Campsie House on the Hospital Road, before all local education boards in Northern Ireland were combined into the Education Authority in 2015.
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Department for Education proposed to build Omagh's six existing secondary schools at the former 190-acre St Lucia Army Barracks, to form one large educational campus, with shared facilities, but with separate school buildings to enable each school to maintain their individual ethos'.
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In 2014, Omagh became one of only seven Northern Irish towns to receive superfast 4G mobile data coverage from the EE network.
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Omagh's rugby team, Omagh Academicals, is an amateur team, made up of primarily of local players.
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