Armagh, Northern Ireland

Armagh covers an area of some 480 square miles and includes the towns of Armagh, Lurgan, Portadown and Keady.

Its terrain is flat in the north with many peat bogs and low hills in the south.  It is the smallest county in Northern Ireland and its produce is heavily agricultural. Apples, potatoes and flax all being major crops.

The town of Armagh was for 700 years the seat of the Kings of Ulster and today the Archbishop of Armagh is nominally 'The Primate of All Ireland'.

Armagh is colored here in red...Monaghan is the county directly southwest of Armagh.

Monaghan, Republic of Ireland

Known In Irish as Mhuineachain, this county covers some 500 square miles in the province of Ulster and has a population of 53,000.

The county town is Monaghan and the landscape lends ideally to agricultural pursuits.  The county is low and rolling and includes the rivers Finn and Blackwater.

Main sources of income are derived from cereal, potato and cattle farming plus
linen production.


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