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  A Short History of Armagh Observatory
When he came to Armagh he continued the fight which Robinson had begun for government assistance and eventually he was rewarded by a grant from the treasury of 2000 pounds, together with a clear indication that this was a once-only payment, not to be repeated.
Armagh Observatory, although set up as a public institution, was basically financed by land endowments and thus it fell victim to the new legislation.
Armagh astronomers have studied the behaviour of active regions; for instance, what proportion of their energy is emitted in different parts of the spectrum and how much is involved in moving jets of material.
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  Lewis: Co. Armagh
It is in the north-east circuit: the assizes are held at Armagh where the county court-house and gaol are situated; and quarter sissions at Armagh, Lurgan, Market-hill, and Ballybott, of which the three last have each a court-house and bridewell.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Armagh, and in the patronage of the Rector of Tynan, who allows a stipend of £50 to the curate, together with the glebe, comprising 54 statute acres, and valued at £56.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Armagh, being the corps of the prebend of Tynan in the cathedral of Armagh, and in the patronage of the Lord Primate; the tithes amount to £800.
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 Flight Of The Earls - History
The Flight of the Earls in 1607 gave the English government the perfect opportunity to put their most ambitious plans into action.
The Earls 'Flight' meant they were now traitors in the eyes of the King James of England.
The Irish who had submitted to the Crown in the past and were not seen as traitors were allowed to stay, but lost much of their land to the planters.
www.flightoftheearls.ie /history.html   (1459 words)

  
 County Armagh, ©Jane Lyons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Ireland's history was largely writ in Armagh, and the destiny of many nations was altered by the men who through the ages left the varied hills and plains of the County and City to carry their messages abroad.
Armagh is the most beautiful inland town in Ireland; there is history in its every stone, but those who would go there should have some kindred spirit to accompany them, with whom to share the charm of the Ancient Citie.
Across the valley on the opposite hill are lifted high to heaven the twin spires of the National Cathedral of St. Patrick, erected by the Roman Catholic Church by National subscription "cum Gloire De agus Onorana h'Eireann" ("To the Glory of God and the Honour of Ireland"), and as a memorial to the National Apostle.
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 Ireland GenWeb County Armagh
I., the whole of the arabie and pasture land, amounting to 77,580 acres, was to be allotted in 61 proportions of three classes of 2000, 1500, and 1000 acres each, among the English and Scottish undertakers, the servitors, and the Irish natives.
Inquisitions were consequently held, the return of which for Armagh, made in August of the same year, states that the county was then divided into the five baronies of Armaghe, Toaghriny, Orier, Fuighes, and Onylane or O'Neale, and enumerates with great particularity the names and tenures of the proprietors.
It is in the north-east circuit; the assizes are held at Armagh, where the county court-house and gaol are situated; and quarter sessions at Armagh, Lurgan, Market hill, and Ballybott, of which the three last have each a courthouse and bridewell.
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 Ireland Catalogue Page 4
Cladymore and Castle Caulfield in the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone".
"Maps of the Turf Bogs belonging to the Manors of Charlemont, Cladymore and Castle Caulfield in the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone, 1828-1831".
Bog occupiers of Aughtmagorgan, Corclea and Granemore, County Armagh 1844-1845.
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Francis Stewart Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell Francis Stewart Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell was born in 1563.
Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick (died 1119) was an English nobleman.
Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester (1711), was an English statesman and writer.
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 shirley.htm
Earl Ferrers, the grandson of Lady Dorothy inherited her share, and Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth succeeded to the inheritance of Lady Frances Devereux, the Earl's elder daughter, later Marchioness of Hertford and Duchess of Somerset.
Thomas Dawson of Armagh, Esq.; Marmaduke Coghill of Dublin, LLD.; Francis Lucas of Dublin, Esq.; Robert Cope of Laggall [Loughgall], Co. Armagh, Esq.; Samuel Dopping of Dublin, Esq.; Francis Dobbs of Carrickmacross, Esq.; and Bryan Osborne alias Norbury of Thomastown, Co. Louth, Esq.;...
In the grant to Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, in 1576, it is described as "in the Province and Earldom of Ulster".
www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/shirley.htm   (13170 words)

  
 Touchet Over the Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Earl of Castlehaven, that his was “a name at wich the world grew pale”.
MERVYN TOUCHET, (1592-1631), 2nd earl, was beheaded on Tower Hill for unnatural offences, after a trial by his peers, on 14 May 1631 and his honours forfeited.
Utterly neglected as to his education, and disgusted at the scenes of bestiality he was compelled to witness, but preserving his natural sense of decency intact, "he appealed for protection from the earl, his natural father, to the father of his country, the king's majesty," and was instrumental in bringing his father to justice.
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 Line of Descent for the Needham's, <b>Barons of Orhera</b>, Co Armagh, Ulster, Ireland. The Barony of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Barony of Orhera, Co Armagh, Ulster, one of 331 Baronies in Ireland, is in the Poor Law Union's of Armagh, Banbridge and Newry, the Probate District of Armagh, the civil Dioceses of Armagh.
Died in the reign of Elizabeth I. Robert Needham of Shavington, Shropshire, Earl of Tyrone, Vice President of the Council of the Welsh Marshes, served Elizabeth I in her wars in Ireland against the O'Neills, Sheriff of Salop, buried Dec. 18, 1603 at Adderley, Shropshire = Frances, dau of Sir Edward Aston of Tixall, Straffordshire.
Leonardo Needham of Chile is a descendent of the 2nd Earl of Kilmorey.
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 Ernest Augustus I of Hanover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His Royal Highness Field Marshal The Prince Ernest Augustus, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and Earl of Armagh, later His Majesty Ernst August I, King of Hanover and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was born at Buckingham Palace.
He served as honorary colonel of the 15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) from 1801 to 1827 and as colonel of the Royal Horse Guards from 1827 to 1830.
On 29 August 1799, George III created Prince Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and Earl of Armagh.
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 Tyrone, Conn O'Neill, 1st Earl of --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Conn, who was related through his mother to the Earl of Kildare (Fitzgerald), became chief of the Tyrone branch of the O'Neills (Cinel Eoghain) about 1520.
It was bounded by the former counties of Londonderry (north) and Fermanagh and Monaghan (south), and by former County Armagh and Lough (lake) Neagh (east).
Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
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 Blackwatertown, Co. Armagh, Ireland, ©Jane Lyons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
BLACKWATERTOWN, a post-town, in that part of the parish of CLONFEACLE which is in the barony of ARMAGH, county of ARMAGH, and province of ULSTER, 5 miles (N. W.) from Armagh city, and 70 (N.N.W.) from Dublin city; containing 103 houses and 528 inhabitants.
In 1596 the Earl covenanted to rebuild it, and to supply an English garrison to be then stationed in it with all necessaries, as one of the conditions upon which peace was granted to him by the
The earl afterwards attempted to reduce it by famine; and the besieged were driven to the last extremities, when Sir Henry Bagnall, with the English army of about 5000 iufautry and cavalry, and some loyal Irish clans, marched to their relief.
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 HRH The Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale
The Dukedom of Cumberland and Teviotdale (GB 1799) and Earldom of Armagh (Ireland 1799)
Arms of the late HRH Ernest Augustus William Adolphus George Frederick, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (peerage of Great Britain), and Earl of Armagh (peerage of Ireland), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, K.G., G.C.H., a Prince of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and Ireland, Lieutenant-General in the British Army, and Colonel in the Austrian Army.
Its last revival was on April 24, 1799, when it was granted to HRH Ernest Augustus, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, 5th son of King George III, created Earl of Armagh (Ireland) and Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale.
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 Royal Houses of Scotland
Maldred, married Edith, daughter of Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland, and was father of Cospatrick, Earl of Northumberland.
Alexander, Earl of Buchan, 1374, and jure uxoris, Earl of Ross, known as “The Wolf of Badenoch” married Euphemia, Countess of Ross, widow of Sir Walter Leslie, and daughter and heiress of William, 5th Earl of Ross, and died without issue 24 July, 1394, leaving several illegitmate children.
David, Earl Palatine of Strathearn, and Earl of Caithness, born circa 1356, and died before 1389, leaving issue, an only daughter and heiress Euphemia, COUNTESS PALATINE OF STRATHEARN and Countess of Caithness, which latter Earldom she resigned to her uncle, Walter Stewart.
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 Co. Armagh Bios
His record may well serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement, showing what may be accomplished by energy and determination, intelligently directed, for it has been by his own efforts that he has gained the prominent position which he now occupies as a substantial agriculturist of this county.
Hugh McCabe was born in County Armagh, Ireland, in March, 1839, and when he was still a child crossed the Atlantic with his uncle, who was first mate on the ship Abbie Blanchard, sailing between Liverpool and New York.
E.J. was born in Ireland, County of Armagh.
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 The Flight Of The Earls.Net - Commemorations
On their website they describe the ‘The Louvain Set’ as consisting of four figures depicting the Flight of the Earls; the battle, the journey, the stay in Louvain and the diaspora, the Earls leaving for Rome and Spain, enduring illness and untimely death.
The Flight of the Earls Centre, Rathmullan, and the local historical committee, are contemplating a variety of events.
Declan Downey, based at UCD, is involved in plans to commemorate the quartercentary of the foundation of the Irish College at Louvain in 2006 and hopes to collaborate with organisers of the Flight commemorations.
www.theflightoftheearls.net /commemorations.html   (1189 words)

  
 Armagh Catalogue of Fiche, Film & CDs Page 1
Please remember that the spelling of place names and the names of Parishes, as with the spelling of surnames, has varied over the course of many years.
"Maps of the Turf Bogs belonging to the Manors of Charlemont, Cladymore and Castle Caulfield in the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone,1828-1831".
Officers serving in the Armagh Regiment, 1801, 1813, 1854.
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 HRH The Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale
The Dukedom of Cumberland and Teviotdale (GB 1799) and Earldom of Armagh (Ireland 1799)
Arms of the late HRH Ernest Augustus William Adolphus George Frederick, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (peerage of Great Britain), and Earl of Armagh (peerage of Ireland), Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, K.G., G.C.H., a Prince of the United Kingdom, of Great Britain and Ireland, Lieutenant-General in the British Army, and Colonel in the Austrian Army.
Its last revival was on April 24, 1799, when it was granted to HRH Ernest Augustus, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, 5th son of King George III, created Earl of Armagh (Ireland) and Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale.
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 1880 Belfast
The principal towns are the county town, city, and Parliamentary borough of Armagh; population in 1871, 8,946, and a part of the Parliamentary borough of Newry, having a population of 5,321, and the remaining portion, with 8,837 inhabitants, is in the County Down.
The Assizes are held at Armagh, and Quarter Sessions at Armagh, Ballbot, Lurgan, Markethill and Newtownhamilton.
The Poor Law Union of Armagh is partly in Armagh and Tyrone, and that of Lurgan partly in Armagh, Antrim and Down.
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 Duke of Cumberland - Grand Orange Lodge of England
This was the famous Duke of York, Commander in Chief of the Army from 1795, who is caricatured in the song the Grand Old Duke of York.
Even on September 15, 1825 when the Grand Lodge of Ireland was reformed they chose Ernest to be Grand Master of Ireland with the Earl of Enniskillen as Deputy Grand Master, but in fact carrying out the duties of Grand Master.
The fight against Catholic Emancipation was at its height at the time with the Duke leading the resistance and the King declaring that it would be contrary to his Coronation Oath.
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 earl.Bourk.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Of the Daughters of Walter Earl of Ulster, Ellin was marry'd to Robert Bruce, King of Scotland; Elizabeth to the Earl of Gloucester; Joan to the Earl of Kildare; Catharine to the Earl of Louth; Margaret to the Earl of Desmond, and Ellinor to the Lord Multon.
The said Richard Earl of Ulster, was call'd the Red Earl, and in the Time of King Edward the First, he was General of all the Irish Forces in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and Gascoign; also in the Year 1227 made Lord Justice of Ireland, and dy'd in 1326, succeeded by William his Son.
William Earl of Clanrickard, by Lettice his Wife, had also a Daughter nam'd Honora, who was marry'd to Colonel Patrick Sarsfield, and after his Decease, to James Fitz-James, now Duke of Berwick, by whom she had an only Son, nam'd James, who is Duke of Lerida.
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 The history of Armagh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The city suffered severely from the calamities consequent on the invasion of Edward Bruce, in 1315, during which the entire see was lamentably wasted, and the archbishop was reduced to a state of extreme destitution, by the reiterated incursions of the Scottish army.
In the short but sanguinary war carried on between the English Government and Hugh O'Nial, Earl of Tyrone, towards the close of the reign of Elizabeth, the Earl obtained possession of this place by stratagem; but unfavourable events in other parts soon obliged him to evacuate the place.
At the commencement of the war in 1641, Armagh fell into the hands of Sir Phelim O'Nial, who, on being soon after forced to evacuate it, set fire to the cathedral, and put to death many of the inhabitants.
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 Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Francis of Battenberg (uncle of Earl Mountbatten of Burma)
Henry of Battenberg (uncle of Earl Mountbatten of Burma)
Mary of Battenberg (aunt of Earl Mountbatten of Burma)
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 Human Orrery
It was invented in around 1700 by George Graham and is named after Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery who had one made for him in about 1712 by John Rowley.
The objective is to engage visitors to Armagh in a thought-provoking and inspiring open-air exhibit, and to use accompanying leaflets and activity sheets to introduce fundamental ideas about the Earth's position in space.
The Orrery, which is the first major addition to the Armagh Observatory Grounds and Astropark for more than a decade, will be located in an area roughly 24 metres across located south of the existing Library between the Robinson Dome and the planned new Library, Archive and Historic Scientific Instruments building.
arpc65.arm.ac.uk /~hmm/orrery   (795 words)

  
 NPG 54; The House of Commons, 1833 (includes George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen; Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, 3rd Earl of Clare (1793-1864), MP for County Limerick.
William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-1886), MP for County Fermanagh.
George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey (1773-1859), Master of the Horse to Queen Victoria.
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 Famous Past Pupils - Royal School Armagh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Son of the Director of the Armagh Observatory.
It is believed that his younger brother Arthur, the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 and later served as Prime Minister was also at school for a short time, also in the 177O's.
They were the sons of the Earl of Mornington.
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In A.D. 1185, Prince John, Earl of Morton, son of King Henry the Second, landed at Waterford, accompanied by Ralph Glunville, Chief Justice of England, and by Giraldus Cambrensis, his secretary and tutor.
Mac-I-Brien or MacBrien, a branch of the O'Briens of Thomond, had large possessions in the barony of Owney and Arra, in Tipperary, and in the barony of Coonagh, county Limerick; and were styled lords of Arra and Coonagh.
The native chiefs held their independence down to the reign of Elizabeth, when Armagh was formed into a county, A.D. by the Lord Deputy, Sir John Perrott.
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