Co. Armagh

<p>In January 1801 the question of who was patron of Armagh, a flourishing market town and centre of the linen trade, was a matter of debate. As the borough fell within the see of the primate of the established church, the archbishop of Armagh, he was commonly regarded as patron.

<p>Armagh, the seat of the primate of Ireland, was dismissed as a ‘mere village’ in one radical source, but was, in fact, in ‘a very improving state’, partly owing to its linen market, which was rebuilt in 1829.<fn><em>Peep at the Commons</em> (1820), 20; <em>PP</em> (1831-2), xliii. 1; (1835), xxviii. 242; S. Lewis, <em>Top. Dict. of Ireland</em> (1837), i.