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.
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