) also ran a line from Strabane through The Laggan, a district in the east of the county, along the River Foyle into Derry.

* A5 ( Northbound ) ( Omagh – Strabane from here north-west to Letterkenny, via Lifford, becoming the N14 road ( Ireland ) | N14 at the county border – Derry )

Over the next few years customs agreements between the two states enabled GNR trains between Strabane and Derry to pass through the Free State without inspection unless they were scheduled to serve local stations on the west bank of the Foyle, and for goods on all railways to be carried between different parts of the Free State to pass through Northern Ireland under customs bond.

The Joint Committee's Strabane — Derry line was closed in 1954, followed by the remainder of the narrow gauge system in 1960.

In accordance with The Benson Report submitted to the Northern Ireland Government in 1963, the UTA closed the former GNR line through Strabane to Derry in 1965.

Other OIRA units were located in Derry, Newry, Strabane, Dublin, and Wicklow and other parts of Belfast.

From further revisions in 1995 ( when it lost parts of the district of Strabane to the West Tyrone constituency ), and until the 2008 revision, it covered exactly the same area as Derry city.

This gave rise to the interesting situation whereby part of the line between Strabane and Derry was in the Republic of Ireland and the stations and permanent way staff on this section were CIÉ employees, even though there was no physical link to the rest of the CIÉ rail network.

This provided connections to Derry ( and through there to Dublin and Belfast ), to Lifford and Strabane, to Gweedore and Burtonport, and to Carndonagh, north of Derry.

Forced to attack or lose face, Ruaidrí responded by plundering and burning areas around Strabane and Derry.

For nearly 100 years, Stranorlar was the headquarters of the County Donegal Railway system ( originally the Finn Valley Railway ), with services to Derry and Letterkenny via Strabane ( near Lifford ), to Ballyshannon and Killybegs via Donegal, and to Glenties.

Local children generally attend secondary school in Strabane or Derry.

Under the proposed reorganisation, now abandoned, the areas of Derry City Council and Strabane District Council were to be merged.

Assistant Commissioner Mark Orr recommended the name " Derry City and Strabane Regional Council " for the merged body, even though Unionist representatives had favoured a name which used " Londonderry " or avoided either word.

* The Donegal Railway Company lines between Stranorlar and Glenties, Donegal Town to Killybegs, Strabane to Derry, and Donegal Town to Ballyshannon

In Strabane in October 1850 she married the Anglican clergyman William Alexander, afterwards Bishop of Derry and Archbishop of Armagh.

Money from her first publications had helped build the Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, which was founded in 1846 in Strabane.

His paternal grandfather was an Episcopal priest born in Camus, near Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from London, England.

Strabane suffered huge economic damage in 1987 when much of the centre of the town was flooded.

Strabane was once the most bombed town in Europe per size and was the most bombed town in Northern Ireland.

The gauge Strabane and Letterkenny Railway opened in 1909 and was worked by the Joint Committee.

In 1792, the Strabane Canal was built from the tidal waters of Lough Foyle at Leck, to Strabane.

It was reported in the Strabane Weekly News that a dog went into the canal but fell ill and died as a consequence.

Strabane has an Irish-medium nursery named Naíscoil an tSratha Báin, which was founded in 1994, and a Gaelscoil ( primary school ).

Named for Strabane, a town in Northern Ireland, this spelling was in use as late as the 1870s.

Strabane Manor, a 232 unit townhouse complex, was recently started along Fischer Road.

The most prominent being the rhyming weaver poetry, of which, some 60 to 70 volumes were published between 1750 and 1850, the peak being in the decades 1810 to 1840, although the first printed poetry ( in the Habbie stanza form ) by an Ulster Scots writer was published in a broadsheet in Strabane in 1735.

Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm.

Charles Stewart was born on August 26, 1868, in Strabane, Ontario, on Wentworth County, to Charles and Catherine Stewart.

His successor, the 2nd Earl of Abercorn, was additionally created Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane, in the Peerage of Ireland, on 8 May 1617.

He was attainted in Ireland in 1691, and the Barony of Strabane forfeited, but his brother Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn, obtained a reversal of the attainder and recovered in 1692.

He was additionally created Baron Mountcastle and Viscount Strabane, in the Peerage of Ireland, on 2 September 1701.

The 2nd Marquess, who had been given the Garter in 1844, served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1866 to 1868 ( and again from 1874 to 1876 ); and on 10 August 1868, during his first term, he was created Marquess of Hamilton, of Strabane, and Duke of Abercorn ( in the Peerage of Ireland ).

Castlederg is cited as " the most bombed small town " in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, though this dubious honour was disputed, with nearby Strabane ( although Strabane is a much larger town in which district council Castlederg is a part of ) also trying to claim the title.

His son Henry Colley ( or Cowley ) was the father of Henry Cowley, who represented Strabane in the Irish House of Commons, and of Garret Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington.

The Strabane and Letterkenny Railway 31 km ( 19. 5 mi ), opened 1909, was worked by the CDRJC

In August 2005, a Channel 4 television programme presented by property experts Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer, named Strabane as the eighth-worst place to live in the United Kingdom, largely because of the high unemployment rate.

Strabane is classified as a medium town by the NI Statistics and Research Agency ( NISRA ) ( i. e. with population between 10, 000 and 18, 000 people ).

Since 1997 Strabane is part of the Westminster constituency of West Tyrone, held since 2001 by Sinn Féin's Pat Doherty.

Education in Strabane is provided by a mixture of infant, primary and secondary schools.

The school will be joined by Strabane High School, to make a single larger second level school.

The Township is bordered on the northwest by Mount Pleasant Township, northeast by Cecil Township, the east by Canonsburg Borough, Houston Borough and North Strabane Township, the southeast by South Strabane Township and the southwest by Canton Township.

Supported by Munster and Connacht, and assisted also by English contingents and by the MacDonnells of Antrim, O ' Neill took the castle of Ballyshannon, and after devastating a large part of Tyrconnell he encamped at Knockavoe, near Strabane.

It lies across the River Foyle from Strabane ( in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland ) and is linked to that town by Lifford Bridge.

The present bridge was constructed by engineering company McAlpines in 1964, jointly funded by Donegal County Council and the old Tyrone County Council ( the present Strabane District Council was only formed in the early 1970s ).