The RPG-7 has been used on British armoured personal carriers and static observation points throughout the conflict, especially in Republican West Belfast and South Armagh.

Armagh has ceased to serve as an electoral constituency in 1983 but remains the core of the Newry and Armagh ( UK Parliament constituency ) and Newry & Armagh Northern Ireland Assembly electoral constituencies.

* Armagh ( has city status )

Armagh has numerous local roads connecting settlements in the county.

The Cróeb Ruad ( modern Irish Craobh Rua, " dull red branch ") was where the king sat ; its name has survived as the townland of Creeveroe in County Armagh.

This was designed and manufactured by Hardman of Birmingham ( a firm employed and partly run by A. W. N. Pugin ) and has representations of the Canonized Bishops and Abbots of the Archdiocese of Armagh around a representation of the Virgin crowned in glory and below a tripartite window representing the constituents of the Holy Trinity.

The council area covers the southern part of County Tyrone ( along with a small area of County Armagh ) and has a population of nearly 48, 000.

* Newry ( partially in County Armagh ; has city status )

While the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland retains four provinces, the Church of Ireland has only two provinces: Armagh and Dublin.

Although he has relatively little absolute authority, the Archbishop of Armagh is respected as the church's general leader and spokesman and is elected in a process different from those for all other bishops.

This practice has been broken only once when, in 1999, the House of Bishops voted unanimously in public to endorse the efforts of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Diocese of Armagh and the Standing Committee of the General Synod in their attempts to resolve the crisis at the Church of the Ascension at Drumcree near Portadown.

This tradition has prevailed even when the Archbishop of Dublin is a cardinal and the Archbishop of Armagh is not a member of the College of Cardinals.

Aiken has been accused by unionists of ethnic cleansing of Protestants from parts of South Armagh, Newry, and other parts of the north, in particular the killing of seven Protestant civilians in Altnaveigh in June 1922.

MR. CHANNING ( Northamptonshire, E .) I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether 11 years ago, in reporting upon a serious collision on the Great Northern of Ireland Railway, between two portions of a train which had become separated, General Hutchinson pointed out to the Company that an automatic brake would have absolutely prevented the collision, by arresting the carriages the moment the separation occurred ; whether at that time the secretary of the company informed General Hutchinson that the simple vacuum brake, whose failure caused this accident, was being merely tried experimentally on the line, and that the company had not yet come to a decision as to what brake would be finally adopted ; and, whether, in spite of this recommendation, this simple vacuum brake, upon the failure of which General Hutchinson reported in 1878, has remained in use on the Great Northern of Ireland line ever since, and is the same brake that was in use in the recent disastrous collision near Armagh?

Since 1353 the Archbishop of Armagh has been titled Primate of All Ireland and the Archbishop of Dublin Primate of Ireland, signifying that they are the senior churchmen in the island of Ireland, the Primate of All Ireland being the more senior.

Since the 1870s one or other of the Catholic archbishops of Armagh and Dublin has been a member of the College of Cardinals.

Research has determined, however, that the earliest part of the manuscript was the work of a scribe named Ferdomnach of Armagh ( died 845 or 846 ).

The regiment has deployed on four tours of Northern Ireland in 1972, 1974, 1976 and 1980, suffering one fatality in 1972, when Trooper Ian Hunter Caie, was killed by a bomb in a beer barrel that exploded in the path of his Ferret scout car in Moybane, near Crossmaglen County Armagh.

The Church of Ireland has two: Armagh and Dublin.

Armagh has been an educational centre since the time of Saint Patrick, and thus it has been referred to as " the city of saints and scholars ".

Armagh has, like most of Ireland, a temperate maritime climate ( Cfb ) according to the Köppen climate classification system.

This was a clever move, for the supremacy of the monastery of Armagh would last only so long as Brian remained the High King.

As Ulster was the last of the Irish provinces to be brought effectually under English rule the Armagh Culdees long outlived their brethren throughout Ireland.

This remark more especially applies when the station from which the train starts is like that of the Newry and Armagh line at Armagh, which, as at present arranged, is perfectly unsuited for dealing with long passenger trains.

The nearest Met Office standard weather station, at Armagh Observatory, provides long term weather data back to 1844.

* June 12-An Irish Republican Army unit carries out a successful arms raid on Gough barracks in Armagh signalling the renewal of IRA activity following a long hiatus.

After three days negotiations, it was agreed that the crown troops could leave Armagh as long as they left their arms and ammunition behind them.

Though the Doon dates from long before the O ' Beirnes became a Sept it is the most important archaeological site in Tir Briuin and one of the two most important of its particular kind in Ireland-the other is the similar Dorsey in Armagh.

Road bowling () ( also bullets or long bullets in Armagh ) is an Irish sport in which competitors attempt to take the fewest throws to propel a metal ball along a predetermined course of country roads.

County Armagh also remains as a district for legal and property purposes however its baronies no longer have any administrative use.

Tottenham High Cross was erected in Tottenham sometime between 1600-1609 by Owen Wood, Dean of Armagh, on the site of a wooden wayside cross first mentioned in 1409, and marks what was the centre of Tottenham Village.

The Observatory is located close to the centre of the city of Armagh, adjacent to the Armagh Planetarium in approximately of landscaped grounds known as the Armagh Astropark, and was founded in 1789 by Richard Robinson, Archbishop of Armagh.

Within Ireland, Co. Armagh held a unique position as centre of religious and social tension.

Having obtained Elizabeth's sanction, Sussex conducted a campaign in the summer of 1563 with Armagh as his temporary headquarters ; but except for some indecisive skirmishing and the seizure of many of O ' Neill's cattle, the operations led to no result and left O ' Neill with his power little diminished.

Its headquarters are in Lurgan, County Armagh.

After flourishing his letters patent at Drogheda upon the proclamation of Hugh O ' Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, as a traitor, Norreys made his headquarters at Newry and fortified Armagh cathedral.

For the purposes of the Act, "... Northern Ireland shall consist of the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry, and Southern Ireland shall consist of so much of Ireland as is not comprised within the said parliamentary counties and boroughs.

" Southern Ireland " was to be all of Ireland except for " the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry " which were to constitute " Northern Ireland ".

" Southern Ireland " was to be all of Ireland except for " the parliamentary counties of Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, and the parliamentary boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry " which were to constitute " Northern Ireland ".

Further education in the region was consolidated further when this institution was merged with other FE colleges in Armagh, Newry and Kilkeel to form the Southern Regional College.

* Armagh Public Library on Abbey Street in Armagh City, especially rich in 17th and 18th century English books, including Dean Jonathan Swift's own copy of the first edition of his Gulliver's Travels with his manuscript corrections

The street was popularly referred to as Primate's Hill, as one of the houses was owned by the Archbishop of Armagh, although this house, along with two others, was demolished to make way for the Law Library of King's Inns.