Moygashel Knowpia

Moygashel
Irish: *Maigh gCaisil*
Moygashel Irish: Maigh gCaisil;
	Location within Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference	H809603
• Belfast	40 mi (64 km)
District	Mid Ulster;
County	County Tyrone;
Country	Northern Ireland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	DUNGANNON
Postcode district	BT71
Dialling code	028
UK Parliament	Fermanagh & South Tyrone;
NI Assembly	Fermanagh & South Tyrone;
	List of places UK Northern Ireland Tyrone 54°29′04″N 6°45′11″W / 54.48452°N 6.75296°W

Moygashel (from Irish Maigh gCaisil, meaning "plain of the stone fort")^[1]^[2] is a small village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is near the southern edge of Dungannon. Although the village's name is pronounced /mɔɪˈɡæʃəl/ (moy-gashel), the trademark of the Irish linen named after it is pronounced /ˈmɔɪɡəʃəl/ (moy-ga-shell).^[3]

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One of the bombers killed in the Miami Showband massacre, Wesley Somerville—who was an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) member—was from Moygashel.^[4] He is commemorated by a plaque and banner in the village.^[5]

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^ Placenames NI Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
^ Placenames Database of Ireland
^ Daniel Jones, Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary (Dent, Dutton: 13th ed., 1967), p. 320.
^ The Post.IE Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Google Maps".

[1] Placenames NI Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Placenames Database of Ireland

[3] Daniel Jones, Everyman's English Pronouncing Dictionary (Dent, Dutton: 13th ed., 1967), p. 320.

[4] The Post.IE Archived 2006-08-28 at the Wayback Machine

[5] "Google Maps".

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