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unusual facts about Charlemont, County Armagh



Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester

Born at Tandragee Castle, County Armagh, Ireland, the young Lord Mandeville was the son of the 9th Duke of Manchester, by his marriage to Helena, the daughter of Eugene Zimmerman, of the USA.

Andy Salmon

In his early service years, he was involved in various operations including tours in Belfast (1978), the Falklands (1982), Crossmaglen (1983), South Armagh (1990), Northern Iraq (1991) and Angola (1992).

Annie Patterson

Annie Patterson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, and was related through her mother's family to Lord Macaulay.

Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall

He was the eldest son of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester, and made a career as a soldier before being elected to the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Armagh in 1634 and again in 1640.

Barry Smyth

Barry Smyth (1973, Keady, County Armagh) is an Irish former head chef and restaurant owner.

Brendan Hughes

He was appointed to the IRA's Internal Security Unit and liaised between Northern Command and rural units in Tyrone and Armagh.

Charlemont Bridge

The bridge spans the River Blackwater connecting the villages of Moy and Charlemont (on the east bank) on the old coaching route between Dungannon and Armagh.

Charlemont High School, Jamaica

Charlemont High School was "conceived" by the late John Bernard Stephenson, a former Member of Parliament for North St Catherine.

Charlemont, Massachusetts

Revolutionary War soldier and historian Lemuel Roberts helped his father establish a farm in Charlemont before leaving to fight in the Siege of Boston.

Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath

After this, Coote's army attempted to take the formidable fortress of Charlemont, which was defended by the remnants of the Ulster army, but his soldiers suffered heavy casualties before the stronghold surrendered.

County Armagh

Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley (1760–1842), educated in The Royal School, Armagh.

Donald Paige Frary

Frary was born in Charlemont, Massachusetts on 9 August 1893 to Edward Sanderson and Caroline Louisa (née Paige) Frary.

Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont

Elizabeth Jane Caulfeild (born June 21, 1834 – died at Roxborough Castle, Moy, County Tyrone, Ireland, May 31, 1882) was the only daughter of William Meredyth, first Lord Athlumney, and by marriage in December 1856 to James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont, she became the Countess of Charlemont.

Griggstown, New Jersey

Paul Muldoon (born 1951) writer, academic and educator, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning poet originally from County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Hawlemont Regional Elementary School

Starting in 1981, the Academy at Charlemont, a private middle and high school, was housed in the former Charlemont High School building for nearly a decade.

Henry Bruce Armstrong

Born in Sholden, Henry Bruce Armstrong was the second surviving son of William Jones Wright Armstrong of County Armagh and Frances Elizabeth, widow of Sir Michael McCreagh, and daughter of Major Christopher Wilson.

Isaac Ellis Pedlow

He was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, the son of Henry Pedlow and Mary Ellis, was educated in Ireland and came to Canada in 1883.

James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont

Lord Charlemont is historically interesting for his political connection with Henry Flood and Henry Grattan; he was a cultivated man with literary and artistic tastes, and both in Dublin and in London he had considerable social influence.

Lord William Beresford

Lieutenant-Colonel Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford VC KCIE (20 July 1847 – 30 December 1900) born Mullaghbrack, County Armagh, Ireland was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Max Clendinning

Max Clendinning (born 1924 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland) is an architect and interior designer.

Monckton Synnot

Monckton Synnot (1827-1879) was a prominent squatter in Victoria, Australia, the sixth son of Captain Walter Synnot and his second wife Elizabeth, née Houston, and the grandson of Sir Walter Synnot, of Ballymoyer, County Armagh.

Moy, County Tyrone

Charlemont is on the east bank of the River Blackwater and Moy on the west; the two are joined by Charlemont Bridge.

Net1

Net1 delivers broadband services to homes and businesses using FWA (Fixed Wireless access) from base stations in Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan, Fingal and parts of Armagh, Westmeath, Tyrone, Longford and Fermanagh counties.

Portadown College

Portadown College (often shortened to the College) is an academic selective grammar school in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, founded in 1924.

RPG-7

The RPG-7 was used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 2005, most notably in Lurgan, County Armagh, where it was used against British Army observation posts and the towering military base at Kitchen Hill in the town.

St Mary's Youth F.C.

St Mary's Youth Football Club (usually just St Mary's) is a Northern Irish football club based in Portadown, County Armagh, playing in Intermediate Division B of the Mid-Ulster Football League.

Stronge baronets

He served as chief magistrate of police at Dublin, and solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue for Ireland, and was also a Justice of the Peace for County Armagh and County Tyrone as well as Deputy Lieutenant of County Armagh.

Third Harvest

Third Harvest are a progressive rock or metal band from Keady in County Armagh in Northern Ireland.

Thomas Glassey

Born in Markethill, County Armagh, he received no formal education, working as a mill-worker and miner in Scotland and England.

Toby Caulfeild, 3rd Baron Caulfeild

After being kept fifteen weeks a prisoner in Charlemont, Caulfeild was moved to O'Neill's castle at Kinard; and on entering the castle was shot dead by Edmund Boy O'Hugh, foster-brother to O'Neill, 1 March 1642.

Valentine Hollingsworth

Hollingsworth was born to Henry and Catherine Hollingsworth, who had moved to County Armagh, Ireland from England and was a member of the Hollingworth family of Hollingworth Hall, in what was Northern Cheshire.

Victor Daley

He was born at the Navan, County Armagh, Ireland, and was educated at the Christian Brothers at Devonport in England.

Wellington Road, Cork

There are An Post postboxes at Charlemont Terrace and Belgrave Place.

William Sampson Guy

William Sampson Guy's grandfather was Thomas Guy, Sr. (1812 – December 18, 1883), who was born in Tanderagee, County Armagh, Ulster, Ireland.


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