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Tullylish
Sign in to saveTullylish () is a small village, townland (of 513 acres) and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It sits on the River Bann, along the main road between the towns of Banbridge and Portadown. In the 2001 census it had a population of 105 people. It lies within the civil parish of Tullylish and Banbridge District.
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Place details
- Locality
- Gilford
- Region
- Northern Ireland / Tuaisceart Éireann
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 1,583
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Northern Ireland
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Tullylish old church - geograph.org.uk - 344807.jpg
- Dialing code
- 028
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- postal code
- BT63
- Commons category
- Tullylish
- historic county
- County Down
- P8168
- Armin D. Lehmann
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Encyclopedic overview
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- People
- Sport
- Civil parish of Tullylish
- Townlands
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Tullylish () is a small village, townland (of 513 acres) and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It sits on the River Bann, along the main road between the towns of Banbridge and Portadown. In the 2001 census it had a population of 105 people. It lies within the civil parish of Tullylish and Banbridge District.
== People == John Butler Yeats (artist and writer, 1839–1922), father of William Butler Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats, was brought up in Tullylish at Vicarage Farm, Lawrencetown. Jeremy Irons (actor, b.1948); the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? revealed that Jeremy Irons family originated from Tullylish Parish, Gilford. Jane Whiteside (1855–1875), New Zealand tightrope dancer, gymnast and magician, was born in Tullylish Rev. Arthur Connell (1821-1899), Church of Ireland priest served Tullylish before moving to St. Mark's where he and his daughter helped found what became Manchester City F.C. John O'Dowd (b.1967), Sinn Féin MLA for Upper Bann, has held ministerial positions in Northern Ireland, born in Tullylish
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