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unusual facts about Kilmore, County Armagh



Agharaskilly

William Bedell, who succeeded Moigne as Bishop of Kilmore disputed this act of Bagshaw’s.

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.

Bishop of Kilmore

The see of Kilmore was originally known as Breifne (Latin: Tirbrunensis, Tybruinensis or Triburnia; Irish: Tír mBriúin, meaning "the land of the descendants of Brian", one of the kings of Connaught) and took its name after the Kingdom of Breifne.

Bo Nixon

Bowman "Bo" Nixon (born 25 July 1984) is a former college captain of Assumption College, Kilmore and Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood and Hawthorn in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Brendan Hughes

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

Coolock

Coolock lies at the centre of majority working class Northside suburbs such as Kilbarrack, Donaghmede and the Edenmore part of Raheny, and itself includes localities such as Ayrfield, Bonnybrook, Darndale, Priorswood, Greencastle and Kilmore West.

County Armagh

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

County Cavan

The Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Felim in Cavan town, is the seat of the Bishop of Kilmore and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kilmore.

Daig

Dediva's other children were Saint Senan of Laraghabrine, son of Fintan, Saint Diarmaid the Just, son of Lugna, Saint Caillin, son of Niata, Saint Felim of Kilmore, who was another son of Carill and Daig's older brother, Saint Femia, who was another daughter of Carill, St.

Femia

Saint Femia (also spelled Femme, Feme, and Eufemia; fl. 6th century) was an Irish Christian saint, a sister of Saint Felim of Kilmore and Saint Daig of Inniskeen.

Griggstown, New Jersey

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

H. Ryan Price

In 1962, he earned the most important win of his career when Kilmore won the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse.

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.

Kilmore, County Armagh

Finds from the area include a 12th-century silver finger ring, a bone comb, fragments of a lignite bracelet, skeletal remains from fields surrounding the church and an early 10th-century copper alloy and crutch-headed pin now in the British Museum.

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.

Mayo North

The sculptures were put in place in the parishes of Kilmore, Belderg and Kilcommon Erris during 1993, the year of the Mayo 5000, celebrating 5,000 years of human habitation in the area.

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.

Nat Cohen

His blue colours with white diamond, hooped sleeves and amber cap were carried to victory by Kilmore in the 1962 Grand National.

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.

OKR FM

OKR is a radio station transmitting on 98.3 MHz (Previously on 97.1 until 1 December 2009) from Kilmore, Victoria, in Australia.

Portadown College

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

Roman Catholic Diocese of Killala

In the twelfth century three of the oldest native Irish monasteries were ordered to adopt the Rule of the Canons of St. Augustine: Cross Abbey (which had been transferred from Inisglora to Kilmore Erris); Errew in Lough Conn and Aughris in Tireragh (said to have been founded from Inishmurray by St. Molaise in 571).

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.

Seymour-FM

The southern section of the Mitchell Shire (including towns such as Kilmore & Wallan) is within the ACMA Melbourne Radio Zone, and is subject to Metropolitan frequency planning.

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.

St. Mary's Church, Kilmore, County Wexford

Mary's Church of Ireland Church is the parish church of Kilmore, County Wexford in the southeast of Ireland.

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.

Thomas Wharton Jones

In 1872, on behalf of the Camden Society, Jones edited an account of the life and death of Bishop Bedell of Kilmore, who was an ancestral kinsman who died in the Irish Rebellion of 1641.

Ursula Frayne

Frayne’s first Victorian foundation was in Kilmore, Victoria in 1875, she loved it particularly for its rural setting.

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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