The Square, Moy
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The Square, Moy
Image: © Kenneth Allen Taken: 16 May 2011
Moy, known locally as ‘The Moy’. Centred round a pleasant square, it was founded as a plantation settlement in 1764 by Lord Charlemont. Moy is connected with the village of Charlemont, named after Lord Charlemont, by a bridge that was built by William Durgan, who was the engineer noted for planning not only Belfast’s Queen Island but also the Portadown to Dungannon section of the Ulster Railway. Moy was for many years the site of one of Ireland’s most famous horse fairs and it supplied many of the horses used by Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.Today the village is a Conservation area. In other Ulster towns, this area would have been called The Diamond.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.446963
Longitude
-6.692011