Silverbridge, County Armagh

Village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland

Human settlement in Northern Ireland

List of places: UK; Northern Ireland; Armagh

54°06′36″N 6°31′23″W / 54.110°N 6.523°W / 54.110; -6.523

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 Senior level in county competitions.^[2] The area was historically called Belanargit (from Béal Átha an Airgid meaning "ford mouth of the silver").^[3]

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 attack on Donnelly's Bar & Filling Station resulted in the deaths of Trevor Bracknell, Patrick Donnelly, and Michael Donnelly.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

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