Hamiltonsbawn or Hamilton's Bawn is a village in
County Armagh
County Armagh (, named after its county town, Armagh) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of an ...
,
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label=Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is #Descriptions, variously described as ...
, five miles (8 km) east of
Armagh
Armagh ( ; ga, Ard Mhacha, , "Macha's height") is the county town of County Armagh and a city in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish. It is the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland – the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the ...
. It lies within the Parish of Mullabrack and the
Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council is a local authority that was established on 1 April 2015. It replaced Armagh City and District Council, Banbridge District Council and Craigavon Borough Council. The first elections to the a ...
area. It had a population of 895 people (343 households) in the 2011 Census.
History
Transport
Hamiltonsbawn railway station opened on 25 August 1864 and finally closed on 1 February 1933.
Education
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Hamiltonsbawn Primary School
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,
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120703004808/http://hamiltonban.com/earlyhistory.html] and named after Hamilton's Bawn.
References
Armagh townsCulture Northern Ireland
See also
*List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
This is an alphabetical list of towns and villages in Northern Ireland. For a list sorted by population, see the list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population. The towns of Armagh, Lisburn and Newry are also classed as cities (see cit ...
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Villages in County Armagh
Populated places established in 1619
1619 establishments in Ireland