Craigballyharky (from
Irish meaning "rocky ground of O'Harky's
homestead
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*Homestead (building), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses
* Nguni homestead, a cluster of houses inhabited by a single extended family, typically with a kraal ...
") is a large hill in the south-west of the townland of
Cookstown
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,
County Tyrone
County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. Its county town is Omagh.
Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the cou ...
,
Northern Ireland
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. It is also the name of a medieval Irish
tuath that spanned the southern half of the parish of Kildress. The northern half was known as Craigballydevine.
Geology
The rock is a
tonalite
Tonalite is an igneous rock, igneous, plutonic (Intrusive rock, intrusive) rock (geology), rock, of felsic composition, with phaneritic (coarse-grained) texture. Feldspar is present as plagioclase (typically oligoclase or andesine) with alkali fe ...
, which shares its name with the landform has yielded a 471 +2/-4 Ma U-Pb zircon age (Hutton et al. 1985).
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References
Mountains and hills of County Tyrone
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