Killen, Tyrone

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Killen
Tyrone

Main Street in Killen.
Location
Grid reference: H240806
Location: 54°40’32"N, 7°37’30"W
Data
Population: 231  (2001)
Post town: Castlederg
Postcode: BT81
Dialling code: 028
Local Government
Council: Derry and Strabane
Parliamentary
constituency:
West Tyrone

Killen is a small village and a townland of 356 acres in Tyrone. It is several miles south-west of Castlederg, on the road leading south over Scraghy Mountain. A short distance to the west lies the border with the Republic of Ireland (County Donegal). It is in the Barony of Omagh West.

The 2001 Census recorded a population of 231 people.

In recent years, Killen Creamery has been turned into a community centre and business centre. Killen also has an Orange Lodge, which was founded in 1829.

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