Armagh

Episcopal see · School or library

county town of County Armagh in Northern Ireland

Location: 54.3494, -6.6544

What this place is

  • School or library — the scriptorium that made the Book of Armagh in 807 — Patrick's own confession, the gospels, and the earliest lives of him, copied here by a scribe who signed his work

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About the place

Armagh is a city and the county town of County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Primates of All Ireland for both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland.

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