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Crossmaglen (from Irish Crois Mhic Lionnáin, meaning 'Mac Lionnáin's cross', IPA: [ˈkɾˠɔʃˈvʲɪcˈlʲɪn̪ˠaːnʲ]) [1] [2] is a village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,610 in the 2011 Census [ 3 ] and is the largest village in South Armagh .
The Troubles in Crossmaglen recounts incidents during, and the effects of, the Troubles in Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, at least 58 police officers and 124 soldiers were killed by the Provisional IRA in South Armagh, many in Crossmaglen itself.
The South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) operated during the Troubles in south County Armagh. It was organised into two battalions, one around Jonesborough and another around Crossmaglen. By the 1990s, the South Armagh Brigade was thought to consist of about 40 members, [1] roughly half of them living south of the ...
On 11 August 1970, two Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers were killed by a booby-trap bomb planted under a car by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) near Crossmaglen, in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
Apr 22, 2023 · Ireland. ‘Bandit country’: 25 years after the Belfast Agreement, the stigma lives on for Crossmaglen. Historian Úna Walsh and former Armagh footballer Oisín McConville show there is more to the...
Crossmaglen is a village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 1,610 in the 2011 Census and is the largest village in South Armagh. The village centre is the site of a large Police Service of Northern Ireland base and formerly of an observation tower.
Nov 14, 2021 · Fifty years since the British Army first requisitioned part of St Oliver Plunkett Park in Armagh, home of Crossmaglen Rangers, Niall McCoy looks at the turbulent recent history of the club.
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