Day 2 of a visit to Dungannon, Co. Tyrone in 2019

A slideshow of photos I took during my first visit to Dungannon on Tuesday 7th May 2019 which was Day 2 of an overnight stay in Dungannon.
Dungannon (Irish: Dún Geanainn, meaning "Geanann's fort") is a town in County Tyrone. It is the third-largest town in the county (after Omagh and Strabane) and had a population of 14,340 at the 2011 Census.
For centuries, it was the 'capital' of the O'Neill dynasty of Tír Eoghain, who dominated most of Ulster. In the 14th century, the O'Neill's built a castle on what is today known as Castle Hill in Dungannon; the location was ideal for a fort as it was one of the highest points in the area, and dominated the surrounding countryside with the ability to see seven counties depending on the weather. This castle was burned in 1602 by Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone as Crown forces under Lord Mountjoy closed in on the Gaelic lords towards the end of the Nine Years' War. In 1607, ninety-nine Irish chieftains and their followers, including Hugh O'Neill, set sail from Rathmullan, bound for the continent, in an event known as the Flight of the Earls. In what is became known as the Plantation of Ulster, their lands were confiscated and awarded to Protestant English and Scots settlers; Dungannon and its castle were granted to Sir Arthur Chichester, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. The present day town of Dungannon was founded during the Plantation of Ulster. Sir Phelim O'Neill seized the town in the opening stages of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, and issued the Proclamation of Dungannon, in which the rebels set out their aims and proclaimed their loyalty to Charles I. O'Neill claimed they had been ordered to rise by the King and later produced a forged commission in support of this. During the course of the Irish Confederate Wars, Dungannon changed hands several times; Scots Covenanter forces under Alexander Leslie captured it in September 1642, before O'Neill took it back in spring 1643.
In 1782, the town was the location where the independence of the Irish Parliament was declared by members of the Protestant Ascendancy who controlled the parliament at the time.
On 24 August 1968, the Campaign for Social Justice (CSJ), the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA), and other groups, held Northern Ireland's first civil rights march from Coalisland to Dungannon. The rally was officially banned, but took place and passed off without incident. The publicity surrounding the march encouraged other groups to form branches of NICRA.
The town became the seat of the new district of Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council in 1973 when the town councils and the six county councils in the north were abolished and were replaced by district councils. In 2015 the norths 26 district councils were reduced to 11 new councils and Dungannon and South Tyrone became part of the new Mid Ulster District Council.
A loyalist car bomb killed 4 Catholic civilians in Dungannon on St. Patrick's Day in 1976.
The castle in Dungannon was partially excavated in October 2007.
Dungannon has won Ulster in Bloom's Best Kept Town Award five times.
Dungannon Park is a seventy-acre oasis centred round an idyllic still-water lake, with miles of pathways and views of the surrounding townland. There are three small lakes on the southern edge of town, the biggest of which is Black Lough.
The M1-A4 Belfast-Enniskillen-Sligo road passes south of Dungannon. Dungannon had a railway station on the former Portadown-Derry railway line (known as the Derry Road). The railway opened from Dungannon to Portadown in 1858 and it was extended to Omagh in 1861 where it met the Derry-Enniskillen railway line. A branch railway line linked Dungannon with Cookstown and Coalisland from 1879 until 1959 when it was closed completely. Dungannon Railway Station closed completely in 1965 when the "Derry Road" railway closed. Part of the line in Dungannon is now a greenway.
Tyrone Crystal had a crystal factory in Dungannon from 1971 until its closure in 2010.
Churches in Dungannon include St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, St. Anne's Church of Ireland, Dungannon Presbyterian Church, Dungannon Methodist Church, Vineyard Church, Dungannon Baptist Church, Dungannon Elim Church.
Primary Schools in Dungannon are Aughamullan (Holy Family) Primary School (RC), Bush Primary School, Clintyclay Primary School, Derrylatinee Primary School (RC), Donaghey Controlled Primary School, Dungannon Primary School, Killyman Primary School, Laghey Primary School (RC),
Lisfearty Primary School, Newmills Primary School, Orchard County Primary School (amalgamation of Annaghmore and Tullyroan primary schools),
St Mary's Primary School, St Patrick's Primary School, Tamnamore Primary School, Walker Memorial Primary School, Windmill Integrated Primary School.
Secondary schools in Dungannon are Royal School Dungannon, Integrated College Dungannon, St Patrick's Academy, Drumglass High School and
St Patricks's College.