Qualla: Armagh https://qualla.com/armagh en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Armagh https://qualla.com/armagh Armagh: Introduction https://qualla.com/armagh/ Saint Patrick built his church on a hill that already had a name. The hill was called Ard Mhacha, Macha's height, after the sovereignty goddess whose burial mound was said to lie on the wooded summit. The Christians moved in around the year 445, but they did not bother changing the name. Today the hill carries the Church of Ireland's Cathedral of Saint Patrick, founded in 445 and rebuilt many times; on a second hill across the small Georgian city stands the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Saint Patrick, begun in 1838. The Archbishops of both churches still hold the title Primate of All Ireland. The same goddess, the same saint, two cathedrals, one quiet city of about 16,000 people. Macha's height is busier than it looks.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/armagh-wp/gcem-armagh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Armagh: Before Patrick https://qualla.com/armagh/ Two miles west of Armagh, on a low hill above pasture and hedgerow, sits the great earthen ring of Navan Fort, in Irish Eamhain Mhacha. This was the royal capital of the Ulaid, the ancient kings of Ulster who give their name to the province. It was named for Macha, the same godde...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/armagh-wp/gcem-armagh-before-patrick.mp3 0:06 2 full Armagh: Brian Boru's Grave https://qualla.com/armagh/ On the north side of Saint Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral, set into the exterior wall, is a stone plaque marking the burial place of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland. Brian had fought his greatest battle at Clontarf, outside Dublin, on Good Friday 1014, and won. He died in...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/armagh-wp/gcem-armagh-brian-borus-grave.mp3 0:06 3 full Armagh: Seven Thousand Scholars https://qualla.com/armagh/ By the eighth century, Armagh was the principal monastic school in Ireland, said at its peak to have housed as many as seven thousand students. The Irish annals also record at least seventeen burnings of the city, partial or total, often by Viking raiders and later by Anglo-Norma...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/armagh-wp/gcem-armagh-seven-thousand-scholars.mp3 0:06 4 full Armagh: Oliver Plunkett https://qualla.com/armagh/ Of all the archbishops who have held the see, none is more remembered than Saint Oliver Plunkett, primate from 1669 to 1681. Plunkett spent his episcopate trying to rebuild a Catholic church battered by penal laws, then fell foul of the anti-Catholic hysteria of the Popish Plot. ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/armagh-wp/gcem-armagh-oliver-plunkett.mp3 0:06 5 full Armagh: The Georgian City https://qualla.com/armagh/ Most of what you see when you walk through Armagh today is the work of one man and one century. Archbishop Richard Robinson, primate from 1765 to 1794, spent his enormous personal fortune turning what was then a shabby provincial town into one of the finest small Georgian cities ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/e/m/armagh-wp/gcem-armagh-the-georgian-city.mp3 0:06 6 full Armagh: Two Saints, Two Cathedrals https://qualla.com/armagh/ Stand in the centre of Armagh and look in any direction and you will see one of two spires. The Church of Ireland's medieval Cathedral of Saint Patrick crowns the original hill of Ard Mhacha; the Catholic Cathedral of Saint Patrick stands on a neighbouring rise, twin spires reach...

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