Omagh
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About Omagh
Omagh is the area town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is arranged where the streams Drumragh and Camowen meet to frame the Strule. Northern Ireland's capital city Belfast is 68 miles toward the east of Omagh, and Derry is 34 miles toward the north. The town has a populace of 21,297, and the previous locale committee, which was the biggest in County Tyrone, had a populace of 51,356 at the 2011 Census. You can come here with your family members and friends.
Omagh contains the base camp of the Western Education and Library Board, and furthermore houses workplaces for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development at Sperrin House, the Department for Regional Development and the Northern Ireland Roads Service at the Tyrone County Hall and the Northern Ireland Land and Property Services at Boaz House. The town is twinned with L'Hay-les-Roses, a town in suburbia of Paris, France. The name Omagh is an anglicisation of the Irish name a Oghmaigh present day Irish a Omaigh, signifying "the virgin plain". A religious community was obviously settled on the site of the town around 792, and a Franciscan friary was established in 1464. Omagh was established as a town in 1610.