Mullaghbrack, Mullabrack or Mullaghbrac (from Irish An Mullach Breac, meaning 'speckled hilltop') [1] is a small civil parish, townland and village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The village of Mullaghbrack is on the road between Markethill and Hamiltonsbawn, just north of Gosford Forest Park. It had a population of 54 people (24 households) in the 2011 census, [2] down from 75 people as of the 2001 census.[ citation needed ]
The civil parish of Mullaghbrack (Irish : An Mullach Breac) spans the historic baronies of Fews Lower and Oneilland West in County Armagh. [3] There are at least 43 townlands in the civil parish, [4] [5] including smaller townlands like Crunaght (29 acres (0.12 km2)) [6] and slightly larger townlands like Drumnamether (389 acres (1.57 km2)). [7] Larger settlements in the civil parish include Markethill and Hamiltonsbawn. [8]
In the 5th century, a simple wooden church was built at Mullaghbrack, within the remains of an ancient earthen-ringed fort. This church is associated with the Culdee Priors of Armagh, who are sometimes regarded as "the successors of St Patrick". [9] The current Church of Ireland church in Mullaghbrack, St. John's Church, was largely rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries on the site of an earlier structure. [10] Among the earliest monuments in the church is a plaque dated to 1638. [11]
The area was impacted during the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Irish commander Féilim Ó Néill, on his march from Newry to Armagh in 1641, reputedly ordered Mulmory MacDonell "... to kill all the English and Scots within the parishes of Mullebrack, Logilly and Kilcluney". [12] Among the properties destroyed in the Markethill area were the parish churches of Mullaghbrack and Kilcluney, Achesons Castle at Markethill and Hamilton's bawn. The rectors of Mullaghbrack (Reverend Mercer) and Loughgilly (Reverend Burns) were both killed. [13]
The local Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club is O'Donovan Rossa's (Cumann Uí Dhonnabháin Rossa), founded in 1903 as the Shamrocks; it disappeared in the 1930s but was reformed under its present name in 1953. The high point in the club's history was its winning the Armagh Junior Football Championship in 1983. [14]
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was an Irish Fenian leader who was one of the leading members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). Born and raised in Rosscarbery, County Cork, he witnessed the Great Famine. Rossa founded the Phoenix National and Literary Society and dedicated his life to working towards the establishment of an independent Irish Republic. He joined the IRB, was arrested by the British and sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1869 he was elected to the British parliament while in prison. After being exiled to the United States in 1870 as part of the Cuba Five amnesty, Rossa worked with other Irish revolutionary organisations there to oppose British rule in Ireland.
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The oldest monument in the Church is the memorial to Sarah Brabazon [..] which bears at the top, the date 1638
[While some reports] may be taken as one of the exaggerations so common to the period. All that is known for certain is that Mr. Mercer, minister of Mullaghbrack, and Mr. Burns, curate of Loughgilly, were among the victims
born [..] July 20th, 1847, in the quaint little village of Mullaghbrach, in the north of Ireland, where his father was rector
