Silverbridge, County Armagh

Silverbridge is a small village in the townland of Legmoylin in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is within the Newry and Mourne District Council area. In the 2011 Census it had a recorded population of 112.[1] The local GAA club is Silverbridge Harps GFC, which plays football at Intermediate level in county competitions.[2] The area was historically called Belanargit (from Béal Átha an Airgid meaning "ford mouth of the silver").[3]

"Silverbridge" redirects here. For other uses, see Silver Bridge (disambiguation).

Silverbridge
  • Irish: Béal Átha an Airgid

Bridge over the Cully Water
Location within Northern Ireland
Population112 (2011)
District
County
CountryNorthern Ireland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWRY
Postcode districtBT35
Dialling code028, +44 28
UK Parliament
NI Assembly

History

Silverbridge, along with the rest of South Armagh, would have been transferred to the Irish Free State had the recommendations of the Irish Boundary Commission been enacted in 1925.[4]

On 19 December 1975, during The Troubles, an Ulster Volunteer Force gun and bomb attack on Donnelly's Bar & Filling Station resulted in the death of Trevor Bracknell (35), an Englishman married to a local woman, and Patrick Donnelly (24) and Michael Donnelly (14), both Catholics, all civilians.[5][6][7]

References
  1. See Census 2011 - Headcount and Household Estimates for Settlements published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)
  2. Armagh GAA website Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, armaghgaa.net; accessed 23 October 2015.
  3. Place Names NI
  4. "Irish Boundary Commission Report". National Archives. 1925. p. 130.
  5. The SAS in Ireland, Mercier Press, Raymond Murray, page 165
  6. Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 1: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1975-77, Ken Wharton, page 151
  7. Malcolm Sutton. "Chronological List of Deaths - 1975". CAIN Web Archive - Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland. Ulster University. Retrieved 26 February 2019.

Sources

See also
  • List of villages in Northern Ireland
  • List of towns in Northern Ireland



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