Tyrone Genealogy Tours
My Ireland Heritage find your Ancestors and exact house location from the 1700’s to the late 1800’s, and all available records in Ireland. We are an Irish family business dedicated to assisting you in your Irish Genealogy research for your roots and records of your family history of past generations in Tyrone, as well as providing you with a once in a lifetime Irish Genealogy tour experience to visit your families original family house and Walk in the Footsteps of your Irish Ancestors.
Sean and the Team at My Ireland Heritage are a Government certified & approved Genealogy & Touring Company, and will personally guide you on the journey into your Irish ancestry to any County in Ireland.
Many companies are genealogy research only, many companies are touring companies only, we at My Ireland Family Heritage are proud to be able to encompass your research and tour together enabling us to work with you throughout the process to customize your tour with you and for you. To achieve a full genealogy tour experience consider adding one of our one-day historical tours.
Our Tours
Our Ancestral Townland Experience Tours
County Tyrone, Ulster’s largest county, stretches from the Sperrin Mountains down through fertile farmland, and carries a genealogical story shaped heavily by the Plantation of Ulster and centuries of subsequent emigration, particularly to North America. Many Ulster-Scots families trace their roots to Tyrone, alongside older Gaelic families, most notably the O’Neills, whose historical influence over the county runs deep.
Tyrone’s mix of Presbyterian, Church of Ireland and Catholic communities means, as in much of Ulster, that identifying your family’s correct denomination is an essential early step before we can locate the right church records. The Sperrin Mountains area in particular held small, scattered farming communities where church access sometimes meant a longer journey than the nearest civil parish boundary would suggest, and we take this local geography into account when confirming the actual congregation and graveyard your family used.
A Tyrone tour can bring you through the Sperrins’ quiet upland scenery and the county’s market towns, out to your family’s specific townland. For the many Tyrone-descended families across the United States, Canada and beyond, this county’s deep Ulster-Scots emigration history often makes for a particularly resonant homecoming.
- Tyrone has 8 baronies
- Tyrone has 46 Civil Parishes
- Tyrone has 0 Electoral Divisions
- Tyrone has 2144 Townlands
- Tyrone has 924 Sub Townlands
County Tyrone from Irish Tír Eoghain, meaning “land of Eoghan” is one of the six historic counties of Northern Ireland. It is also one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, and lies within the historic province of Ulster
Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, has a population of about 177,986. The name derives from the conquests made by the Cenél nEógain from the provinces of Airgíalla and Ulaid.
Tyrone was the traditional stronghold of the various O’Neill clans and families, the strongest of the Gaelic Irish families in Ulster, surviving into the seventeenth century. The ancient principality of Tír Eoghain, the inheritance of the O’Neills, included the whole of the present counties of Tyrone and County Derry.
In 1608 during O’Doherty’s Rebellion areas of the country were plundered and burnt by the forces of Sir Cahir O’Doherty following his destruction of Derry. This was a particularly bad period for Ulster once the plantations of 1607-1609 began.
Family Dynasties 1500-1600 AD
- Irish – O’Neill, O’Donnelly, O’Hagan
- Norman – None
- Scottish – None
- Viking – None
County Tyrone – Things to do and may be possible to include within your Ancestral Townland Experience Tour
- Ulster American Folk Park (Omagh)
- Argory (Dungannon)
- Gortin Glen Forest Park (Omagh)
- Drum Manor Forest Park (Cookstown)
- Dungannon Park (Dungannon)
- Beaghmore Stone Circles (Cookstown)
- Davagh Forest Trails (Cookstown)
- Parkanaur Forest Park (Dungannon)
- Ardboe Cross (Ardboe)
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Tyrone strongly connected to Ulster-Scots emigration?
Yes, Tyrone has a substantial Ulster-Scots heritage from the Plantation period, and many families with Scots-Irish roots in North America trace back to this county.
My family is connected to the O'Neills of Tyrone, is that a common claim?
The O’Neills held significant historical influence in Tyrone, and while the connection should always be verified through records rather than family legend alone, we’re well placed to help confirm or clarify it.
Are Sperrin Mountains communities harder to research than lowland Tyrone?
They can require more local geographic knowledge, since travel patterns for church attendance sometimes crossed civil parish boundaries, but this doesn’t prevent thorough research.
