Armagh
Irish Ard Mhacha `the height of Mhacha ´ (a legendary queen)
County of Northern Ireland
Area:
1,250 sq km/483 sq mi
Towns and Cities:
Armagh (county town), Lurgan and Portadown (merged to form Craigavon),
Keady
Physical:
Smallest county of Northern Ireland; flat in the north, with many bogs
and mounds formed from glacial deposits; low hills in the south, the
highest of which is Slieve Gullion (577 m/1,893 ft); principal rivers
are the Bann, the Blackwater and its tributary, the Callan
Agriculture:
Good farmland (apart from the marshy areas by Lough Neagh) with apple
orchards; potatoes; flax; emphasis on livestock rearing in the south;
fruit-growing and market gardening in the north
Industries:
Linen manufacture (Portadown and Lurgan were the principal centres
of the linen industry) ; milling; light engineering; concrete; potato
crisps
Population:
(1981) 119,000.
Borders
The River Blackwater, which flows into Lough Neagh, forms the western
boundary with County Tyrone; County Down lies to the east. The hills
of igneous rock en | 
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