Mountjoy
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Mountjoy may refer to:
Places
Ireland
- Mountjoy Prison, a medium security prison in Dublin, Ireland opened in 1850
- Mountjoy Square, a city square in Dublin
- Mountjoy, a former barony of Ireland now known as Dungannon Upper
United Kingdom
- Brockagh (also known as Mountjoy), a hamlet in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland
- Mountjoy Castle, a castle in Magheralamfield, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
- Mountjoy, Durham, an escarpment south of Durham, England, where pilgrims got their first view of the cathedral, now home to a campus of Durham University
Elsewhere
- Mountjoy, Ontario, a neighbourhood in Timmins, Ontario, Canada
- Monte do Gozo (Mountjoy), the hill near Santiago de Compostela, Spain, where pilgrims get their first sight of the cathedral
- Mons Gaudi (Mountjoy), now Nabi Samwil, the hill roughly 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) north of Jerusalem where the army of the First Crusade rejoiced upon getting their first glimpse of Jerusalem in June of 1099
People
Title
- Baron Mountjoy, a hereditary title given to the men of two families
- William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy (died 1534)
- Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516–1544)
- Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire, Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputy of Ireland
Surname
- Celeste Mountjoy, Australian artist and illustrator
- Dick Mountjoy (1932–2015), American politician from California
- Don Mountjoy (1906–1988), Australian politician
- Doug Mountjoy (1942–2021), Welsh Snooker player
- Eric W. Mountjoy (1931–2010), Canadian emeritus professor at McGill University
- Penelope Mountjoy, archaeologist
Given name
- Mountjoy Blount, 1st Earl of Newport (c. 1563–1606), illegitimate son of Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire
Fictional
- Mountjoy (comics), a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe
- Mountjoy, the French herald in Shakespeare's Henry V
Ships
- The Mountjoy was a merchant ship used to relieve the Siege of Derry in Ulster in 1689. It was also the codename for the ship used in the 1914 Larne Gun Running.
See also
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