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Willie Anderson (rugby coach), was born here. Mic Christopher, singer-songwriter, has maternal roots here; his mother, Vaun (née Heaney), comes from Sixmilecross.; W.F. Marshall, whose contribution to the cultural heritage of mid- and west Tyrone has been commemorated by the Marshall Trail, a tourist trail featuring many of the places mentioned in his works.
Sixmilecross railway station served Sixmilecross in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. The Portadown, Dungannon and Omagh Junction Railway opened the station on 1 January 1863. In 1876 it was taken over by the Great Northern Railway .
They had one son, Major Sir Ronald Deane Ross MC MP, and two daughters, Irene and May, the younger of whom predeceased her father. Ross died, of bronchial pneumonia, at his home, Dunmoyle Lodge, Sixmilecross, County Tyrone, on 17 August 1935, and was succeeded as the second baronet by his son.
William Forbes Marshall (8 May 1888 – January 1959) was an Irish poet and Presbyterian minister from Sixmilecross, County Tyrone, Ireland. He was the younger brother of the Rev. Robert Lyons Marshall, professor, poet and dialect writer. Marshall's father was principal teacher at Sixmilecross National School, where he was first educated.
Apart from Omagh the area of the former District Council contains smaller towns including Drumquin, Dromore, Trillick, Fintona, Beragh, Carrickmore and Sixmilecross. The council was established in 1973 and originally had 20 councillors but following a review of local government boundaries in the early 1980s, the number of councillors was ...
Willie Anderson (born 3 April 1955) is a rugby union coach and former Ireland international. A lock, Anderson was capped 27 times for the national side between 1984 and 1990, some of which as captain. [2]
Sixmilecross: Fermanagh and Omagh County Tyrone 251 133 0.44 574.21 Small village or hamlet 322 Nixon's Corner: Derry and Strabane County Londonderry 251 92 0.05 5,368.41 Small village or hamlet 323 Artikelly: Causeway Coast and Glens County Londonderry 249 108 0.10 2,461.31 Small village or hamlet 324 Monea: Fermanagh and Omagh County ...
The Killeeshil ambush took place on 15 July 1994, when an armour plated vehicle of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was intercepted by a tipper lorry driven by a Provisional IRA active service unit from the East Tyrone Brigade and riddled with automatic rifle fire while travelling on the Dungannon Road at Killeeshil crossroads, in southern County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.