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unusual facts about Jonesborough, County Armagh


Ian Corden-Lloyd

On 17 February, a Green Jackets observation post deployed around the village of Jonesborough began to take heavy fire from the "March Wall", which drew parallel to the border with the Republic of Ireland to the east, along the Dromad woods.


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.

Battle of Jonesborough

The Union army began pulling out of its positions on August 25 to hit the railroad between the towns of Rough and Ready and Jonesborough.

Brendan Hughes

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

Chester Inn

The Chester Inn was an inn on the Great Stage Road in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

County Armagh

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

Genius of Universal Emancipation

Lundy moved the paper to Jonesboro, Tennessee in 1823, and then established himself in Baltimore, Maryland in 1824, where most of the paper's run would be published.

Griggstown, New Jersey

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

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 Patton Brownlow

James Patton Brownlow was born on December 14, 1842 in Jonesborough, Tennessee.

Jonesborough, County Armagh

The incident resulted in the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Ian Douglas Corden-Lloyd.

On 17 February 1978, a British Army Gazelle helicopter, went down near Jonesborough after being fired at by a Provisional IRA unit from the South Armagh Brigade.

The IRA unit was involved in a gun battle with a Green Jackets' observation post deployed in the area, and the helicopter was sent in to support the ground troops.

Jonesborough, Tennessee

The main crest of the Appalachian Mountains rises just a few miles southeast of Jonesborough.

Jonesborough is centered around the junction of Andrew Johnson Highway (which is part of both U.S. Route 321 and U.S. Route 11), which connects the town to Greeneville to the southwest and Johnson City to the northeast, and Tennessee State Route 81, which connects Jonesborough to Interstate 81 to the northwest and Interstate 26 at Erwin to the southeast.

It was named after North Carolina legislator, Willie Jones, who had supported the state's westward expansion over the Appalachian Mountains.

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.

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.

The Troubles in Jonesborough

17 February 1978 - Ian Corden-Lloyd (39), member of the British Army was killed when the Gazelle helicopter in which he was travelling crashed, shortly after having been hit by gunfire from a Provisional IRA unit, near Jonesborough, 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.

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.

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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