Evish
{{short description |Townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland}}
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Evish ({{Irish place name|Eimhis|coarse mountain pasture}}){{cite web| title=Evish| work=Place Names NI| url=http://www.placenamesni.org/resultsdetail.phtml?entry=2608| access-date=15 December 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804192227/http://www.placenamesni.org/resultsdetail.phtml?entry=2608| archive-date=4 August 2012}} is a small rural community area and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 3 miles from Strabane and 7 miles from Plumbridge. It is situated in the barony of Strabane Lower and the civil parish of Camus and covers an area of {{convert|870|acre|ha}}.{{cite web | title=Townlands of County Tyrone| work=IreAtlas Townland Database| url=http://www.thecore.com/seanruad/ | access-date=15 December 2012}}
Features
Within the area is Evish Primary School and Evish Cross Community Group. It includes Dergalt where President Woodrow Wilson's ancestral home is located.{{cite web | url=http://www.geographia.com/northern-ireland/ukiher01.htm#Tyrone | title=Ancestral Heritage - County Tyrone | publisher=geographia.com | access-date=6 September 2020 }}
Demographics
In 1841 the population of the townland was 193 people (39 houses) and in 1851 it was 199 people (43 houses).{{cite web | title=Census of Ireland 1851| work=Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland| url=http://eppi.dippam.ac.uk/documents/13130/eppi_pages/336899 | access-date=15 December 2012}}
Archaeology
The townland contains one Scheduled Historic Monument: a Wedge tomb (grid ref: H3923 9678).{{cite web|title=Scheduled Historic Monuments (to 15 October 2012) |work=NI Environment Agency |url=http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/the_schedule_of_historic_monuments_-_october_2012-2.pdf |access-date=15 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026155955/http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/the_schedule_of_historic_monuments_-_october_2012-2.pdf |archive-date=26 October 2013 }}
See also
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