Killynaght

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File:The rocking stone, Killynaght - geograph.org.uk - 192978.jpg
Portal tomb in Killynaght townland in 2006

Killynaght is a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the barony of Strabane Lower and the civil parish of Leckpatrick and covers an area of 489 acres.[1]

The name derives from the Irish: Coill Uí Neacht (O Knaght's wood).[2]

In 1841 the population of the townland was 191 people (40 houses) and in 1851 it was 155 people (29 houses).[3]

The townland contains one Scheduled Historic Monument: a Portal tomb (grid ref: C3909 0113),[4] a collapsed single chambered tomb of four stones, known locally as The Rocking Stone.[5] The capstone is about 1m thick and 2m square.[6]

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