Tyrone, situated within the civil parish of Tyrone in the barony of Loughrea, carries this doubled identity as both townland and parish, a pairing that gives the place an almost recursive quality on any map or record where it appears.

The name itself is the more interesting thread to pull. Tyrone derives from the Irish Tír Eoghain, meaning the land of Eoghan, a name most firmly associated with the northern province through its historical connection to the Uí Néill dynasty and their ancestor Eoghan. How exactly that name came to attach itself to this corner of east Galway is not entirely clear, though the spread and replication of territorial names across Ireland was not unusual in the medieval period, when dynasties moved, fragmented, or carried their placenames with them into new territories.