Aughnacloy, County Tyrone
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Aughnacloy, County Tyrone
Image: © Kenneth Allen Taken: 5 May 2006
It has a very wide street for an Ulster town - Cookstown is another town with a wide street. Acheson Moore was said to have laid out the town much as it is today. Although he was a landlord he was also a secret Jacobite and designed some of his fields and hedges to the west of the town in the shape of a huge thistle. This was not discovered until the advent of aerial photography.......The circular part of the thistle was always referred to locally as the Racecourse as that is what it was shaped like. Unable to rename it "Mooretown", he had to settle for naming the main street "Moore Street", and the side streets Sydney, Lettice and Henritta (now Ravella Rd), after his three wives. More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughnacloy,_County_Tyrone
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Image Location
Latitude
54.415853
Longitude
-6.977975