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Killylea (/ k ɪ l iː ˈ l eɪ /; from Irish Coillidh Léith 'grey forest') is a small village and townland in Northern Ireland. It is within the Armagh City and District Council area. The village is set on a hill, with St Mark's Church of Ireland, built in 1832, at its summit.
This is a list of cities, towns, villages and hamlets in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. See the list of places in Northern Ireland for places in other counties. Towns are listed in bold .
The hospital, which was designed by Francis Johnston and William Murphy, opened as the Armagh Asylum in 1825. [1] It expanded with the opening of the Hill Building in 1898. [ 2 ] Following the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and various facilities including inpatient dementia ...
This is an alphabetical list of towns and villages in Northern Ireland.For a list sorted by population, see the list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population.The towns of Armagh, Lisburn and Newry are also classed as cities (see city status in the United Kingdom).
The chief Irish clans of the county were descendants of the Collas, the O'Hanlons and Mac Cana, and the Uí Néill, the O'Neills of Fews. Armagh was divided into several baronies: Armagh was held by the O'Rogans, Lower Fews was held by O'Neill of the Fews, and Upper Fews were under governance of the O'Larkins, who were later displaced by the ...
The following is a list of townlands in County Armagh, Northern Ireland: [1] [2 ... Killycomain, Killyfaddy, Killylea, Killylyn, Killymaddy, Killynure, ...
On the afternoon of 24 July 1990, 37-year-old nun Catherine Dunne was driving an Austin Metro car with a passenger, Cathy McCann, a 25-year-old social worker. [2] Some hours previously, members of the IRA took over a house close to Killylea Road, two miles outside Armagh, County Armagh, holding its occupants, a married couple and their children, at gunpoint.
A recent study used remote sensing (including lidar, photogrammatry, and magnetic gradiometry) to map the site, and found evidence of Iron Age and medieval buildings underground, which co-author Patrick Gleeson says suggests that Navan Fort was "an incredibly important religious center and a place of paramount sacral and cultural authority in ...