Armagh Observatory and PlanetariumArchbishop Richard Robinson founded the observatory in 1790, and the planetarium on the same grounds opened in 1968 and is the oldest still running in Ireland and Britain.
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Armagh County Museum
Armagh, County Armagh
The oldest county museum in Ireland, opened in 1937 in a building with a columned front on the edge of The Mall in Armagh.
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- Armagh, County Armagh
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Armagh Observatory and PlanetariumArchbishop Richard Robinson founded the observatory in 1790, and the planetarium on the same grounds opened in 1968 and is the oldest still running in Ireland and Britain.
St Patrick's Church of Ireland CathedralThe Church of Ireland cathedral stands on the hill that gave Armagh its name, on the site of the great stone church that tradition gives to Patrick.
Armagh Robinson LibraryArchbishop Richard Robinson opened his own collection to the public here in 1771, and a copy of Gulliver's Travels with handwritten notes is on display.
St Patrick's Catholic CathedralThe Catholic cathedral stands on the neighbouring hill, its twin spires above a long flight of steps, built in stages between 1840 and 1904.
Navan FortA circular hilltop enclosure with a mound inside it, west of Armagh city, known in the old tales as Emain Macha, the seat of the kings of Ulster.
Benburb CastleSir Richard Wingfield built the bawn around 1615 on a cliff edge above the River Blackwater, in what are now the grounds of the Servite Priory at Benburb.What’s on nearby
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Slieve GullionMountain · MeighThe highest point in the county, with a forest drive up its side and a passage tomb on the summit, at the centre of the Ring of Gullion.
Gosford Forest ParkForest · MarkethillThe old demesne of the Earls of Gosford outside Markethill, now a forest park of woodland and parkland around the castle, with an arboretum and a walled garden.
The ArgoryHouse and gardens · CharlemontAn Irish gentry house finished in 1824, on a wooded estate above the River Blackwater, off the Derrycaw Road near Moy.
Ballykeel DolmenPrehistoric site · MullaghbawnA portal tomb at the western foot of Slieve Gullion, its granite capstone balanced on three stones at the end of a long cairn.
Oxford IslandNature reserve · LurganNot an island at all but a peninsula reaching into Lough Neagh near Lurgan, a national nature reserve of woodland and meadows with the Lough Neagh Discovery Centre.
Killevy ChurchesChurch · MeighTwo ruined churches in a graveyard at the foot of Slieve Gullion, on the site of the nunnery that St Moninne founded at Killevy.
Moyry CastleCastle · JonesboroughA small square tower built on rock in 1601 to hold the Moyry Pass, the old road north through the Gap of the North.
Derrymore HouseHouse and gardens · BessbrookA thatched cottage orné built in the late 1770s for Isaac Corry, set in parkland and woods outside Bessbrook that are open to walk.