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"The Book of Armagh" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Gwynn, John, ed. (1913). Liber Ardmachanus: the book of Armagh. Dublin, Hodges, Figgis & co., ltd. In the following pages the entire text of the Book of Armagh, as now extant, is reproduced, paginatim lineatim verbatim literatim; Book of Armagh. Digital facsimiles.
Parish Etymology or likely etymology Townlands Sources Armagh: Irish: Ard Mhacha, meaning 'Macha's height' 24 [2] Ballymore: Irish: an Baile Mór, meaning 'the large settlement' 47 [3] Ballymyre: Irish: Baile an Mhaoir, meaning 'Myre's settlement' 8 [4] Clonfeacle: 18 [5] Creggan: Irish: an Creagán, meaning 'the rocky place' 58 [6] Derrynoose ...
The Book of Armagh was produced in the monastery in the early 9th century and contains some of the oldest surviving specimens of Old Irish. Armagh was at the heart of the kingdom of the Airthir, a part of the Airgíalla federation. The church at Armagh looked to both the Airthir and neighbouring Uí Néill for patronage. [11]
Others exist in portmanteau with words of Irish or English origin, such as Castletownroche, which combines the English Castletown and the French Roche, meaning rock. Most widespread is the term Pallas (from Norman paleis, "boundary fence") which appears in over 20 place names, including the towns Pallasgreen and Pallaskenry. [19]
clabber, clauber (from clábar) wet clay or mud; curdled milk. clock O.Ir. clocc meaning "bell"; into Old High German as glocka, klocka [15] (whence Modern German Glocke) and back into English via Flemish; [16] cf also Welsh cloch but the giving language is Old Irish via the hand-bells used by early Irish missionaries.
County Armagh (Irish: Contae Ard Mhacha [ɑːɾˠd̪ˠ ˈwaxə]) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.It is located in the province of Ulster and adjoins the southern shore of Lough Neagh.
Airgíalla at its peak roughly matched the modern dioceses of Armagh and Clogher, spanning parts of counties Armagh, Monaghan, Louth, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Londonderry. [2] Its main towns were Armagh and Clogher. The name's usage survives as a cultural area of folk tradition in South East Ulster and adjoining areas of County Louth.
The Old Irish word associated with the name of the island is cathach, also called a Phéist. The word cathach translates as "sea serpent", which formed part of the Aos sí in Irish folklore; it was a legendary sea monster going back to Pre-Christian times that once inhabited the island and terrorised the people on the island.