A report on Ulster and County Armagh

County Down is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.

It borders County Antrim to the north, the Irish Sea to the east, County Armagh to the west, and County Louth across Carlingford Lough to the southwest.

According to legend, the ancient territory of Ulaid spanned the whole of the modern province of Ulster, excluding County Cavan, but including County Louth.

In the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology—which survives in texts from the 8th century onward—the pre-historic Ulaid are said to dominate the whole north of Ireland, their southern border stretching from the River Boyne in the east to the River Drowes in the west, with their capital at Emain Macha (Navan Fort) near present-day Armagh, County Armagh.

Armagh (Ard Mhacha,, "Macha's height" ) is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish.

According to Irish mythology it was one of the great royal sites of Gaelic Ireland and the capital of Ulster.

It is set far in the past, in what is now eastern Ulster and northern Leinster, particularly counties Armagh, Down and Louth.

Newry is a city in Northern Ireland, divided by the Clanrye river in counties Armagh and Down, 34 mi from Belfast and 67 mi from Dublin.

Newry lies in the most south-eastern part of both Ulster and Northern Ireland.

Louth is bordered by the counties of Meath to the south, Monaghan to the west, Armagh to the north and Down to the north-east, across Carlingford Lough.

Uniquely, the Cooley Peninsula had a sizable population of Presbyterian Gaeilgeoirí in the late 18th and 19th centuries, owing to its proximity to Ulster.

The Plantation of Ulster began in 1609, and the province was heavily colonised with English and Scottish settlers.

In Armagh, the ratio was 55.3% Unionist / 44.7% Nationalist.

County Tyrone is one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland.

Tyrone is connected by land to the county of Fermanagh to the southwest; Monaghan to the south; Armagh to the southeast; Londonderry to the north; and Donegal to the west.

It is part of the Border Region and is in the province of Ulster.

The partition of Ireland in 1922 turned the boundary with County Armagh into an international frontier, after which trains were routinely delayed by customs inspections.

The British Army fought Irish rebels—Protestant and Catholic—primarily in Ulster and Leinster (Wolfe Tone's United Irishmen) in the 1798 rebellion.

On 25 June 2007 the 2nd Battalion of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment left the army complex in Bessbrook, County Armagh, ending the longest operation in British Army history.