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Palace Stables Heritage Centre

Address: Palace Demesne, Friary Rd., Armagh
Phone: 028/3752-9629
www.visitarmagh.com

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: Armagh

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Fodor's Review:

Reopened in 2007 following a major renovation, Palace Stables Heritage Centre presents a diorama of everyday life—upstairs and downstairs—in the 18th-century days of the extremely wealthy Richard Robinson. Baron Rokeby was this man's ancestral title but he was best known as the region's archbishop of the Church of Ireland. He commissioned local architect Francis Johnston, who had designed much of Georgian Dublin, to create a new Armagh out of the slums into which it had degenerated. The archbishop gave the city a clean water supply and a sewer system, then turned the city's racecourse into an elegant mall. He paved and lighted the streets; financed improvements to the Bishop's Palace and the Protestant cathedral; and endowed the public library, the observatory, the Royal School, and the county infirmary.

Cost: £5
Open: June-Sept., Mon.-Sat. 10-5, Sun. 1-5

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