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Dungannon| Market town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 64 km/40 mi southwest of Belfast; population (2001) 11,100. It was the main seat of the O'Neill family, former kings of Ulster. Dungannon is now a retail centre with some fine Georgian terraces. Its industries include Tyrone crystal, mechanical engineering, meat processing, and food packaging. |
| Dungannon was a significant scene of conflict with the English crown during the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| After the formation of the kingdom of Ireland by Henry VIII in 1541, Con O'Neill, in a tactical manoeuvre, declared loyalty to the English crown and was granted the title of Earl of Tyrone in 1542. During the Nine Years' War, Hugh O'Neill (c. 1550–1616) engaged in open conflict with the English crown and in 1598 defeated English forces at the Battle of Yellow Ford to the south of Dungannon. After the Irish defeat at Kinsale in 1602, Dungannon was destroyed to prevent conquest by the English. Subsequently Tyrone was forfeited to the English crown and Dungannon was granted to Arthur Chichester, who replanned the town; and in 1692 it was sold to Thomas Knox. It expanded considerably as a market town under his descendants. |
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| But, Warren LaForce, 29, who farms 15 acres with his father in nearby Dungannon, Virginia, suggests the emergence of some new local traditions. Terex Corporation, Westport, CT, has announced acquisition of Powerscreen International, Dungannon, Northern Ireland, a company which manufacturers screening, crushing and material handling equipment. In 1964, in the town of Dungannon in County Tyrone, a middle-class housewife, Patricia McCluskey, founded the Homeless Citizens league to protest the lack of public housing available to Catholics, many of whom had been on the waiting list for years while homes in Protestant neighbourhoods sat empty. |