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Bullock Park

human settlement in Northern Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ4996987 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bullock Park is a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Omagh West and the civil parish of Longfield West and covers an area of 398 acres.

The population of the townland increased slightly overall during the 19th century:

The townland contains one Scheduled Historic Monument: a Portal tomb (grid ref: H2778 7892).

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The public source identifies “Bullock Park” as human settlement in Northern Ireland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bullock, Park and human.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bullock, Park and human providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bullock Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.