Museum sights in Armagh City
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Armagh County Museum
The city museum displays prehistoric axe heads, items found in bogs, corn dollies and straw-boy outfits, and military costumes and equipment. Don't miss the gruesome cast-iron skull that once graced the top of the Armagh gallows.
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Palace Stables Heritage Centre
The Primate's Palace, overlooking the ruins of a 13th-century Franciscan friary on the southern edge of town, was built for Archbishop Robinson when he was appointed primate of Ireland in 1769. The bishop's stables are now home to the Palace Stables Heritage Centre, a set of tableaux staffed by costumed guides illustrating how the archbishop's guests were entertained in the 18th century.
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Armagh Public Library
The Greek inscription above the main entrance to Armagh Public Library, founded in 1771 by Archbishop Robinson, means 'the medicine shop of the soul'. Step inside and you'd swear that the archbishop had just swept out of the door, leaving you to browse among his personal collection of 17th- and 18th-century books, maps and engravings.
The library's most prized possession is a first edition of Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726 and annotated by none other than Swift himself. It was stolen in an armed robbery in 1999, but was recovered, undamaged, in Dublin 20 months later.
Other treasures of the library include Sir Walter Raleigh's 1614 History of the World, the Claims of…
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Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum
Near the county museum, the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum tells the story of the 'Eagle Takers', the first regiment to capture one of Bonaparte's imperial eagle standards in 1811.
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Navan Centre
The Navan Centre has exhibitions placing the fort in its historical context, and a recreation of an Iron Age settlement.
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