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Stewartstown
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 Stewartstown
is located five kilometres north of
Coalisland and nine kilometres
south-east of
Cookstown. The village was a market
and post
town in the parish of Donaghendry and
took its
name from the founder Sir Andrew
Stewart who had
been granted the district by James I.
In 1608 he
erected a limestone bawn which was
later
converted to a castle. The foundation
of the village
consisting of a square and three
streets were laid out
at the same time.
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Stewartstown Development Association
Stewartstown Development Association has been
catalyst in various community
projects including the Crieve Centre facility.
The group is involved in developing the
local community infrastructure in an effort to
realise the area's full potential and meet
the needs of the people. The group was
responsible for setting up the Stewartstown
Community Festival Committee. |
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Stewartstown Festival Committee
Stewartstown Festival Committee has staged cross
community festivals every year
since 1994. In 1999 over 200 people from the
town of Stewartstown and its surrounding
area took part in Stewartstown 2000 Pageant.
Following the success of the Pageant,
the newly formed Stewartstown Dramatic Society
presented Jack and the Beanstalk
over the Easter 2000 period. In 2001 the group
presented Cinderella, in
2002 the group
presented Sinbad, in January 2003, Aladdin and
in January 2004 they presented Sleeping Beauty. |
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Stewartstown and
District Historical Society
Founded in 1982, the group holds a winter
(September – April) series of talks on
local history in The Crieve Centre. In Spring
and Summer, outings are arranged to places
of historical interest. The Society publishes a
magazine, The Bell, covering topics of local
interest, sometimes a miscellany and usually
featuring a listing of headstone inscriptions
from graveyards in Ballyclog and Donaghendry
Parish. Bell 8’s main article traced the
history of the Cookstown 100 Road Race; Bell 7
commemorated The United Irishmen in
East Tyrone; Bell 6 described the Famine in the
area. Some back copies are still available. |
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Stewartstown Cross-Community Women’s
Group
The women’s group have completed courses in
sewing and patchwork and have also
held a successful charity fundraising coffee
morning. Further courses in Patchwork,
Yoga and Art are scheduled. The group was given
help to form by CWSAN and was
formally constituted in 2001. |
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Friends of Drumcairne Forest
Friends of Drumcairne
Forest came into being in January 2004. The
group’s objective is to promote
the regeneration of Drumcairne Forest as a
natural amenity for education, creation and the
simple appreciation of nature. The group is of
a cross-community nature and the members have a
variety of objectives regarding the forest
including hunting, tourism, gun dog club,
walking, cycling, education and nature
study.
Effectively the crux of the
group’s existence is to enable the presently overgrown and neglected Drumcairne Forest become beautiful once again,
whereby local people will want to use it’s many facilities.
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Ochill Youth Group
Ochill Youth Group draws it’s
membership from 9 years to 30 years old. The
group meets in Ochill Hall each Wednesday night
from 8.00 pm to 9.30 pm from April to August and
during November and December. This is in order
to provide membership of the group with a
community resource when other organisations have
finished their winter programme, as most other
local clubs and organisations run from
September to March.
The group offers various
different activities including, football, darts,
softball and netball.They have also staged
one-off cross community events in the past
including a Christmas teenage disco
and a local historical evening. Future events
are being planned at present.
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