Mountjoy

Mountjoy may refer to:

Places

• Brockagh (also known as Mountjoy), a hamlet in County Tyrone in present-day Northern Ireland
• Mountjoy, Omagh a village near Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Mountjoy, Ontario, a neighbourhood in the Ontario city of Timmins
• 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 Derry in Ulster in 1689. It was also the codename for the ship used in the 1914 Larne Gun Running.

See also

• Mount Joy (disambiguation)
• Montjoi (disambiguation)
• Montjoie (disambiguation)