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Sixmilecross is a townland and small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The original Irish name for Sixmilecross is Na Corracha Mora , this refers to marshy ground, probably the ground that runs along the Glusha river at the back of the village.
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 .
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.
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.
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Castle Coole, the family seat. Earl Belmore is a title in the Peerage of Ireland that was created in 1797 for Armar Lowry-Corry, 1st Viscount Belmore, [1] who had previously represented County Tyrone in the Irish House of Commons.
Tempo–Sixmilecross Fault is a geological fault in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. See also. List of geological faults in Northern Ireland; References
21 May: an off-duty UDR soldier ( Captain Ivan Anderson) was shot dead by the IRA near his home in Tiroony, near Carrickmore, County Tyrone. He was driving from Sixmilecross Primary School where he was Head teacher when his car was hit a number of times by IRA gunfire. He managed to continue driving for several yards before crashing.