Once one of the grandest houses in Ulster 

Armagh was the ancient territory of the Ulaid – The tribe that gave Ulster its name. The north of Ireland was ruled from the nearby Emain Macha (or Navan Fort) before the 1st century AD. St Patrick established the most important monastery in the north of Ireland and it later became the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland in 1111. This beautiful building is Armagh’s Bishop’s Palace which sits on 300 acres of parkland. This was the residence of the Archbishops of the Church of Ireland between 1770 to 1975. It was built for Archbishop Richard Robinson to the designs of the famous architects Francis Johnston and Thomas Cooley and is now classified as a grade ‘A’ listed building for its original architectural set pieces. It is now the headquarters for Armagh District Council after being vacated by the Archbishop in the 1970s.