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ARMAGH , a See also:city and See also:market See also:town, and the See also:county town of Co. Armagh, See also:Ireland, in the See also:mid See also:parliamentary See also:division, 891 m. N.N.W. of See also:Dublin by the See also:Great See also:Northern railway, at the junction of the See also:Belfast-See also:Clones See also:line. Pop. (1901) 7588. It is said to derive its name of Ard-macha, the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill of Macha, from See also:Queen Macha of the See also:Golden See also:Hair, who flourished in the See also:middle of the 4th See also:century
c_. but earlier it was named from its situation on the sides of aARMAGNAC
steep hill called Drumsailech, or the Hill of Sallows, which rises in the midst of a fertile See also:plain near the Callan stream. Of high antiquity, and, like many other Irish towns, claiming (with considerable See also:probability) to have been founded by St See also:Patrick in the 5th century, it See also:long possessed the more important distinction of being the See also:metropolis of Ireland; and, as the seat of a flourishing See also:college, was greatly frequented by students from other lands, among whom the See also:English and Scots were said to have been so numerous as to give the name of Trian-Sassanagh, or Saxon See also:Street, to one of the quarters of the city. St Patrick's See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
bell, long preserved at Armagh, the See also:oldest Irish relic of its See also:kind, is now, with its See also:shrine of the See also:year 1091, preserved in the museum of the Royal Irish See also:Academy at Dublin. Of a See also:synod that was held at Armagh as See also:early as 448, there is an interesting memorial in the See also:Book of Armagh, an Irish MS. dating about A.D. 800. Exposed to the successive calamities of the Danish incursions, the English See also:conquest and the English See also:wars, and at last deserted by its bishops, who retired to See also:Drogheda, the See also:- VENERABLE (Lat. venerabilis, worthy of reverence, venerari, to reverence, to worship, allied to Venus, love; the Indo-Germ. root is wen-, to desire, whence Eng. " win, properly to struggle for, hence to gain)
venerable city sank into an insignificant collection of cabins, with a dilapidated See also:cathedral. From this See also:state of decay, however, it was raised, in the second See also:half of. the 18th century, by the unwearied exertions of See also:Arch-See also:bishop See also:Richard See also:- ROBINSON, EDWARD (1794–1863)
- ROBINSON, HENRY CRABB (1777–1867)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1575–1625)
- ROBINSON, JOHN (1650-1723)
- ROBINSON, JOHN THOMAS ROMNEY (1792–1882)
- ROBINSON, MARY [" Perdita "] (1758–1800)
- ROBINSON, SIR JOHN BEVERLEY, BART
- ROBINSON, SIR JOSEPH BENJAMIN (1845– )
- ROBINSON, THEODORE (1852-1896)
Robinson, 1st See also:Lord Rokeby (1709-1794), which, seconded by similar devotion on the See also:part of succeeding archbishops of the See also:Beresford See also:family, notably See also:Archbishop Lord See also:John See also:George Beresford (1773-1862), made of Armagh one of the best built and most respectable towns in the See also:country. As the ecclesiastical metropolis and seat of an archbishop (See also:Primate of all Ireland) in both the See also:Protestant and See also:Roman organizations, it possesses two cathedrals and two archiepiscopal palaces. As the county town Armagh has a See also:court-See also:house, a See also:prison, a lunatic See also:asylum and a county infirmary. Besides these there is a See also:fever See also:hospital, erected by Lord John George Beresford; a college, which Primate Robinson was anxious to raise to the See also:rank of a university; a public library founded by him, an See also:observatory, which has become famous from the efficiency of its astronomers; a number of churches and See also:schools, and See also:barracks. Almost all the buildings are built of the See also:limestone of the See also:district, but the See also:Anglican cathedral is of red See also:sandstone. It stands boldly on the See also:top of the hill, a cruciform structure dating from the 13th, but practically rebuilt in the 18th century, in accordance with its See also:original See also:plan. The Roman See also:Catholic cathedral is in the Decorated See also:style, and was consecrated in 1873. Armagh was a parliamentary See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough until 1885; and, having been incorporated in 1613, so remained until 1835. The See also:administration is in the hands of an See also:urban district See also:council. Two See also:miles W. of Armagh is Emain, Emania, or See also:Navan Fort, with large entrenchments and mounds, the site of a royal See also:palace of See also:Ulster, founded by that Queen Macha who gave her name to the city. In A.D. 335 it was destroyed during the inroad on the defeat of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Ulster by the three See also:brothers Colla, See also:cousins of Muredach, king of Ireland. Armagh itself See also:fell before the king See also:Brian Boroime, who was buried here; and before See also:Edward See also:Bruce in 1315, while previous to the English See also:war after the See also:Reformation, it had witnessed the struggles of See also:Shane O'See also:Neill (1564).
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