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'''Tír Eoghain''' ({{Irish place name|Land of [[Eógan mac Néill|Eoghan]]}}), also known as '''Tyrone''', was a kingdom and later earldom of [[Gaelic Ireland]], comprising parts of present-day [[County Tyrone]], [[County Armagh]] and [[County Londonderry]]. The kingdom represented the core homeland of the [[Cenél nEógain]] people of the [[Northern Uí Néill]] and although they ruled, there were smaller groups of other [[Gaels]] in the area. Also known as the guidance of Land. One part of the realm to the north-east broke away and expanded, becoming [[Clandeboye]], ruled by a scion branch of the [[O'Neill dynasty]].
==History Staire ==
From the 5th5ú centuryhaois founding of Cenél nEógain, the ''[[tuathatuath]]'' was a sub-unit of the larger kingdom of [[Kings of Ailech|AilechAileach]] (which they typically held the kingship to), along with their [[Cenél Conaill]] cousins, fellow descendants of [[Níall Noígíallach|Niall of the Nine HostagesNaoighiallach]]. The initial ascent of Ailech had coincided with the decline of the [[Ulaid]], whose kingdom of [[Ulster]] receded to the north-east coast.
In the 12th12ú centuryhaois, the kingdom of Ailech split into two sovereign territories and Cenél nEógain became Tír Eoghain,. the land of Eoghan, Anglicised as Tyrone. It was ruled under the [[MeicMhic Lochlainn]] clan and then under their kinsmen the Ó Néill clan. The other part of Ailech, Cenél Conaill became known as [[Tír Conaill, the land of Conall, Anglicised as [[TyrconnellChonaill]].
Following the [[Earldom of Ulster#De Courcy.27s invasion of Ulaid|Norman invasion of Ulster]] in 1177, Tír Eoghain had become the predominant power in the north of Ireland, a position it regained upon the collapse of the Norman [[EarldomIarlacht of UlsterUladh]] in the 14th century. During the reign of [[House of Tudor|Tudor]] monarch [[ElizabethEilís I]], it would become an earldom within the [[kingdomRíocht ofna IrelandhÉireann]], however the extent and power of Tyrone would be eventually curtailed and it was shired into the counties of ArmaghArd Mhacha and Tyrone, and subdivided into baronies.
During the reign of [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] monarch [[JamesSéamas I of England|James IShasana]], Tyrone would be reduced further with the barony of Loughinsholin in its north-east being transferred to the new county of [[CountyContae Londonderry|LondonderryDhoire]]. The Ó Néill rebelled several times, attempts to reassert sovereignty. The last attempt of substance was under [[HughAodh O'Neill,Ó Earl of TyroneNéill|Aodh Mór Ó Néill]], Earl ofIarla Tyrone]], who fled in 1607 in what became known as the [[FlightTeitheadh ofna the EarlsnIarlaí]], where he and many of his allies (particularly among Ulster Gaeldom) fled Ireland.
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