Moorfield House, Omagh
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Moorfield House, Omagh
Image: © Kenneth Allen Taken: 6 Nov 2007
The house is located on the Derry Road, opposite Harmony Heights. It was stated in "Poetry in Stone" that there was somewhere about the Derry Road that the RC Church was located between 1796 and 1820. I have not completely established if it actually was at this location, or it possibly it referred to a site nearer Brook Street. In any case the former church was a small building, 54 feet x 26 feet. It has this name, because the Chapel being occupied on this site, replaced a house there occupied by a Mr James Moore
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Image Location
Latitude
54.594296
Longitude
-7.31232