Editing Strabane (section)

===Early history===
[[File:Strabane Fair.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Strabane Fair by Herbert F. Cooper, {{circa|1910}} (PRONI)]]

The locale was home to a group of northern Celts known as the [[Orighella]] as far back as the fourth century when the territories of [[Eógan mac Néill|Owen]] (later [[Tír Eoghain]]) and [[Conall Gulban|Connail]] (later [[Tír Chonaill]] - mostly modern [[County Donegal]]) were established, and Orighella were assimilated into the [[Cenél Conaill]]. With the arrival of [[Saint Patrick]], a mission established a church in the area near [[Castlefin]], and having visited the [[Grianan of Aileach|Grianán Aileach]] for the conversion of Owen, returned along the Foyle river, establishing a further church at [[Artigarvan|Leckpatrick]] (the name means 'the flagstone of St. Patrick'). A later church was established at [[Lifford|Lifford/Clonleigh]] by a mission headed by [[Columba|St. Colmcille]]. In AD 586 St. Colgan established a monastery at Camus [from whence the parish of Camus-Juxta-Mourne gets its name]. Other monasteries and religious sites were established at this time at [[Urney, County Tyrone|Urney]], [[Ballycolman]], Donagheady, and [[Artigarvan]].<ref name="worldcat.org">{{cite book|title=The Fair River Valley : Strabane through the ages|oclc=045721315}}</ref>