ARMAGH, urban district and county town, Co. Armagh, Ire land, 891m. N.N.W. of Dublin by Great Northern railway, at junction of the Belfast-Clones line. Pop. (1926) 7,356. The city is of great interest because of its religious associations, some claim ing that it was founded by St. Patrick in the 5th century. It was the seat of a flourishing college and early became the metropolis of Ireland, inheriting much of the importance of the old fortress of Emain Macha, which was destroyed in the 4th century. As a result of Danish incursions and the ravages of the English wars the settlement became much diminished and very dilapidated. its bishops moving to Drogheda, where they enjoyed the greater se curity of the coastal plain. With the more settled conditions of the 18th and 19th centuries, the fortunes of Armagh revived and it once again became a prosperous and well-built centre. As the seat of an archbishop in both the Protestant and Roman organiza tions, it possesses two cathedrals and two archiepiscopal palaces.