District (pop., 2001: 54,263), Northern Ireland.
Formerly part of County Armagh, the district was established in 1973. It lies south of Lough Patrick established his principal Irish church here in the 5th century. The area was the leading intellectual centre of the Western world in the 5th–9th centuries. Taken by English Protestant forces in the 16th century, Armagh became a prosperous centre for Protestant clergy and gentry, a circumstance reflected in its many Georgian monuments and buildings.