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Armagh (city)
City and county town of County Armagh, Northern Ireland; population (2001) 14,600. Industries include textiles, including linen; the manufacture of shoes, optical instruments, and chemicals; and engineering and food processing. The city became the religious centre of Ireland in the 5th century when St Patrick was made archbishop.
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Armagh was a noted seat of learning; St Patrick founded a monastic school here, and in 1169 Rory O'Connor, the last high king of Ireland, founded a ‘professorship’. The city was the seat of the kings of Ulster for 700 years, and is now the seat of both the Roman Catholic and Anglican archbishops of Ireland, each of whom bears the title ‘Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland’.
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