Gortin

GORTIN, a village, in the parish of LOWER-Badony, barony of Strabane, county of Tyrone, and province of Ulster, 5 miles (E.) from Newtown-Stewart, on the road to Cookstown; containing 441 inhabitants. This place is situated in a deep valley watered by the river Nagle, and in the district of the Mounterloney mountains, of which it may be considered the chief town. It consists of one irregular street, containing 82 houses indifferently built; the surrounding scenery, though boldly picturesque, is destitute of embellishment from the want of wood, which is found only in the demesne of Beltrim, the handsome residence of A.W.C. Hamilton, Esq., which is surrounded by young and thriving plantations. There is a small distillery in the village; and fairs are held on the first Wednesday in every month, for cattle, sheep, and pigs, and a pleasure fair on Easter-Monday. It has a penny post to Omagh, and is a constabulary police station; a court baron for the manor of Eliston, in which debts to the amount of 40s.

are recoverable, is held here on the first Tuesday in every month; and petty sessions every second Friday.

The parish church, a neat small edifice, is situated here, also the parochial school, and a dispensary.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.