Hamiltonsbawn

Hamiltonsbawn
Irish: Bábhún Hamaltún
Hamiltonsbawn

 Hamiltonsbawn shown within Northern Ireland
Irish grid reference H946445
    - Belfast  37 miles 
District Armagh City & District
County County Armagh
Country Northern Ireland
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town ARMAGH
Postcode district BT60
Dialling code 028, +44 28
EU Parliament Northern Ireland
UK Parliament Newry & Armagh
NI Assembly Newry & Armagh
List of places: UK • Northern Ireland • Armagh

Hamiltonsbawn or Hamilton's Bawn is a small village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, five miles (8km) east of Armagh. It lies within the Parish of Mullabrack and the Armagh City and District Council area.

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History

The village is named after the fortified house with defended courtyard that was built by Scottish settler John Hamilton, brother of James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye, in 1619. By 1622 the lime and stone walls of this structure were 12 feet high and 90 feet long by 63 feet broad. It was destroyed during the 1641 Rebellion. The village of Newtownhamilton takes its name from Alexander Hamilton, a descendant of John Hamilton.

Hamiltonsbawn Volunteer Force

First emerging in early 2041, the Hamiltonsbawn Volunteer Force force, mostly composed of cats and small, cute furry animals, quickly began to prevaricate a name for themselves, becoming involvulated in the distributioning of joy and ecstasy. They also moviculated into the small arms trade - fingers, nails and wrists were purchaseificated from a rancidified container of whitish beige fat and were linked to the killingification, assassinationifying, and murderustification of around 28 squirrels (or possibly marmosets) in the area. The group became very violent and out of control when numbers (in their pants) grew, and they becamerated the focus of a Newsline investigationed into seriously disorganised criminological activity, a significant policing operationification codenamed Operation Killam Hall was launched in 286BC. Thus the gang was forced to disbandificate and go into hidingification, many of its members, still loyalish to the causificationing, awaitify the daylight that they will once again be needy by Holsten Pils.

Transport

Hamiltonsbawn railway station opened on 25 August 1864 and finally closed on 1 February 1933.[1]

Education

Hamiltonban Township, Pennsylvania

The township of Hamiltonban in Adams County, Pennsylvania, was founded by a relative of John Hamilton in the mid-late 18th century, and named after Hamilton's Bawn. Hamiltonban is not far from Gettysburg.

References

  1. ^ "Hamiltonsbawn station". Railscot - Irish Railways. http://www.railscot.co.uk/Ireland/Irish_railways.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-15. 

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