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Armachiana

ARMACHIANA

This is the name given to 23 volumes of unpublished typewritten articles, essays and lectures by the first curator, TGF Paterson. The subject matter is wide and varied, ranging from 18th century outlaws to rural traditions and parish histories. Amounting to over one million words this unique archive is now fully searchable online for everyone explore and enjoy.

Volume 1.The Armagh Archbishops Registers; County Armagh Survey, 1608; Old County Customs; Armagh 17th century Outlaws; Orchards; Ancient Schools; City Charters and Corporation; Records; Fairs and Markets; Railways in County Armagh; City Antiquities; Armagh Observatory; Dunsink & Armagh.

 

Volume 2. St. Patrick’s Cathedral bells; Organists; The Choir; Cathedral Grammar school; Edward Bunting; The Palace Pictures, Portraits of Archbishops; Royal Portraits; Porch Armorial Bearings; The Palace and Obelisk; Earlier residences of the Archbishops of Armagh; St. Brigid’s Well; Templenafertagh; Franciscan scan Friary.

 

Volume 3. General History of the City; Education; Hotels and Inns; Armagh Coaches; Armagh Theatre; The Corporation Records.

 

Volume 4. A guide to Armagh in the 18th & 19th centuries

 

Volume 5. The Mall; The Tontine; The Market House; Beresford Arms Hotel; The Seven Houses; Castledillon; Introduction to Armagh Public Library; Education and Historical background; Charters, Fairs and Miscellanea.

 

Volume 6. The Parish of Ballymore; Rectors and Curates; Tanderagee; Roman Catholic Church; The O’Hanlons; St.John, Sparrow and Montague families; Ballymore Vestry Book; Schools in the Parish; Notes on the Manors of, Acton, Ballymore, Clare, Drumbanagher, Moyry, Munterheny, Tamnavalton, Teemore.

 

Volume 7. Townlands in Ballymore parish

 

Volume 8. Tandragee history notes on the following topics; Methodism; Militia; Volunteers; Yeomanry; Schools; Battle of Lisnagade; Orangeism; William Kennedy; Fever Hospital; Linen manufacturing; Scarva sham fight; Local families, Blacker, Benn, Bredon, Collyer, Greenaway, Loftie, Madden. Rev. W. Major, Creery, McCreight, Montgomery, Patton, Waring, Prentice.

 

Volume 9. Parish history notes on the following parishes – Aghavilly, Annaghmore, Arboe, Ballymoyer, Caledon, Derrynoose, Eglish, Grange, Kilmore, Killylea, Keady.

 

Volume 10. Parish history notes on the following parishes – Loughgall, Mullavilly, St. Saviour’s, Tynan; Armagh City Presbyterianism; Armagh Riots 1717.

 

Volume 11. Armagh County Infirmary notes; St. Luke’s hospital notes.

 

Volume 12. Folklife and folklore; Navan Rath Traditions; St. Patrick; Fairies; Cures and Charms; Marriage Customs; Funeral Customs; Mass Rocks; Horse Racing; Turf Cutting; Windmills; Bird Traditions; Festivals; New Year’s Day; St. Stephen’s Day; Twelfth Day; St. Brigid’s Eve; March 25th; All Fools Day; Easter; Shrove Tuesday; Mid-Summer Eve; Bonfire Night (July 1st); Feast of St. Peter & Paul; Feast of St. John; Harvest Customs; Christmas Rhymers; Halloween Customs; May Eve Customs; August 15th.

 

Volume 13. The Newry Canal; The Tyrone Navigation; The Lagan Canal; Armagh – Blackwater Canal; The Ulster Canal.

 

Volume 14. Richhill – The Estate & Village; Portadown; Portadown Bridges; Armagh Amenities Committee, 1934-1944; Royal Irish Constabulary; Cricket in Armagh; Racing in Armagh; Local Landmarks.

 

Volume 15. Lurgan history notes; Brownlow family; Linen; Hare coursing; – DATA ON PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATIONS; Benburb; Clare; Drumhillery; Lislooney; Loughgall; Vinecash; Richhill; Ahorey; Drumbanagher; Tyrone’s Ditches.

 

Volume 16. Kildarton area; Portadown parish; Mullaghglass parish; Meigh vestry; Tartaraghan townlands; The Toby Hole.

 

Volume 17. Ballymacone; Sliabh Fuaid; The Fews in 1651; Charlemont Rental; Blayeberry Sundays; Harvest Homes; notes of festivals kept in Ballymacone; Folktales; St . Patrick and the Bull; Antiquities in Ballymacone.

 

Volume 18. Rural Household utensils; Local dishes; The Potato; Irish gate pillars; Schools; Local sayings and proverbs; Fighting terms; Riddles; greetings; cures; Weather lore; Local names for common ailments; Local names for birds, animals; Notes on plants; Local types of apples; Death Warnings; The Horse; The Big Wind; The Irish Language; Creaghts; Cattle; Fews dialect.

 

Volume 20. Coney Island, A Mendicant Badge; Long Bullets; Creggan Vestry; Petitions of Protestant Dissenters; Marlacoo Lake; Gate Pillars; Gosford Castle; Barracks; Altmore Barracks, Co. Tyrone; Archbishop Gregg; Old Armagh.

 

Volume 21. PART ONE: Abstracts from Calendar of State Papers; The lands of the Abbey of St. Peter & Paul; Irish Patent Rolls of James I; Beggars badges; Agricultural data.

 

Volume 21. PART TWO: Marlacoo Lake; Benburb; Racing in Armagh; Local Records; Railways; Coursing; Some County Armagh Outlaws.

 

Volume 21. PART THREE: Castledillon; The Presentment of the Jury for the Moyry Castle 1608; Proposals for a University at Armagh; The Black Bank and Fews Barracks; Our Architectural Heritage; The Ancient Schools of Armagh.

 

Volume 22. Early References to Mills; Rocque’s Map (1760); Coote’s Survey (1804); Stuart’s Historical Memoirs of Armagh (1819); Notes from Ordnance Survey Sheets; Industry in Co. Armagh in 1888; Land Utilization, 1888.

 

Volume 23. Armagh Observatory; Dunsink and Armagh; City of Armagh Field Club; Data on the Mall; St. Luke’s Hospital; St.Patrick’s Seminary and Armagh Mechanics Institute; Mass Gardens and Mass Rocks; St. Mark’s church Plate; Macan Asylum for the Blind; St. Malachy’s Chapel

 

Volume 24. The Royal School, including The Barring Out; Duels; School magazine; Anketell’s poems

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