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document.write("One of\nthe first known references to the village was on a 1690 Plantation map of Ireland.\nIn the 1820s this village, the property of Earl Belmore, was described as having\n\"one long wide street of very mean houses whose tenants for the most part appear\nto be poor\". The inhabitants mostly worked in trade and agriculture. In 1841\nthe population was 617, the village having 103 houses. The village had a market\npatent granted under the name \"Lowrystown\". The Portadown,\nDungannon and Omagh Junction Railway opened Beragh railway station on 2 September\n1861. The Ulster Transport Authority closed the station and the PD&O line on\n15 February 1965. 2001 Census - <\/span>Beragh is classified as a small village or hamlet by the NI Statistics and\nResearch Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with a population between 500 and 1,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 520 people living in Beragh. Of these:<\/span> 28.5% were aged under 16 years;<\/span><\/p> 18.1% were aged 60 and over; the average age was 34.3 years (NI average age\n35.8 years);<\/span><\/p> 47.5% of the population were male and 52.5% were female;<\/span><\/p> 62.8% were from a Catholic Community Background;<\/span><\/p> 35.4% were from a Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)\'\nCommunity Background;<\/span><\/p> 6.3% were born outside Northern Ireland; and<\/span><\/p>0.0% were from an ethnic group other than white.<\/span><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n St Malachy\'s Church, Seskinore.<\/span> <\/span><\/p> The Catholic Church in the village was originally a dwelling\nhouse which was purchased, in 1839, by the Catholic Community and was enlarged and\nfitted out as a place of worship. Extensive repairs were carried out c.1906 and\nit has remained substantially unchanged since. It is built in a modern style and has a nice bell at the\nfront. The graveyard is adjacent to it. Manufactured\nby M. Bryne of the Fountain Head Bell Foundry, Dublin and dated 1904. The best known\nof the Dublin bell founders was, undoubtedly, Matthew O\'Byrne of The Fountain Head\nBell Foundry. Matthew\nByrne had been a Chief Engineer in The Royal Navy. In 1840 he established The Fountain\nHead Iron Foundry in James\'s Street, Dublin. His son, Matthew W., changed his surname\nto O\'Byrne. This\nexplains why the name M Bryne is stamped on the supporting frame and O\'Bryne is\nengraved on the bell. Bells\nby Matthew O\'Byrne were cast and, where necessary, tuned in the foundry before being\nfitted with headstocks and other fittings. In 1887 the \"M Byrne Patent Rotary\nMounting\"<\/span> was patented. This was a cast-iron headstock with a tapered hole\nthrough which a tapered boss on the crown of the bell was inserted and bolted in\nplace using the crown staple bolt: \"we claim that [this] is the best in\nexistence; in fact, it has no rivals. By slacking the nuts, the bell can be rotated\nin a few moments, thus presenting a new striking face to the tongue to strike. This\nincreases the life of the Bell beyond measure\".<\/span> There\nis a similar bell in the car park at the rear of the Holy Trinity Church, Newcastle-under-Lyme\nwhich wast at the Fountain Head Bell Foundry, Dublin in 1915 and this could be one\nof several others. Church\nbell and church, Beragh : Looking west; the bell is old in relation to the newer\nchurch It is\nrung by hand for Mass and funerals.
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