Mountjoy
Mountjoy may refer to:
Places
- Brockagh (also known as Mountjoy), a hamlet in County Tyrone in present-day Northern Ireland
- Mountjoy, Ontario, a neighbourhood in Timmins, Ontario, Canada
- Mountjoy Castle, a castle in Magheralamfield, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
- Mountjoy Prison, a medium security prison in Dublin, Ireland opened in 1850
- Mountjoy Square, Dublin
- Mountjoy, a former barony of Ireland now known as Dungannon Upper
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
- Dick Mountjoy (born 1932), American politician from California
- Doug Mountjoy (born 1942), Welsh Snooker player
- Eric W. Mountjoy, Canadian emeritus professor at McGill University
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 Londonderry 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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