Machaire na Caorach

Magheranageeragh derives its name from the Irish Machaire na Caorach, meaning 'plain of the sheep,' where machaire denotes a fertile lowland plain and caorach refers to sheep. The townland lies in Meenagh Electoral Division within the civil parish of Termonamongan, in the Barony of West Omagh, County Tyrone. The area has deep roots in ecclesiastical history. Termonamongan parish itself origina...