Eglish St. Patrick's is a Gaelic Athletic Association

Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...

 club based in the village

Village

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 of Eglish

Eglish

Eglish is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is about 6km southwest of Dungannon and is within the Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council area. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 93. The village has grown in a dispersed form and has a mix of housing, industry and...

 in County Tyrone

County Tyrone

Historically Tyrone stretched as far north as Lough Foyle, and comprised part of modern day County Londonderry east of the River Foyle. The majority of County Londonderry was carved out of Tyrone between 1610-1620 when that land went to the Guilds of London to set up profit making schemes based on...

, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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. There is a new football pitch called Pairc Chormaic named after Cormac McAnallen. Eglish also won the Tyrone Senior league in 1976 and four Intermediate Chapiomships in 92,93,2007 and 2010. Eglish is a growing community and has thrived in the last 10 years the population has risen to around 2000 citizens. The new website is now online although the old website was brilliant too, Kudos to Matthew Murtagh and Gerard Jones.