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Ballymacnab () is a townland and village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is within the Parish of Cill Chluana, 7 miles south of the City of Armagh on the road towards Newtownhamilton. It is within the Armagh City and District Council area. == Geography & History == Local buildings and amenities include Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church ((アイルランド語:Naomh Pádraig, Baile Mhic an Aba)), Foley school ((アイルランド語:Fo-Bhaile PS)), Ballymacnab Hall and the recently opened Mac's General Store. The local pub, O'Toole's Bar, was originally used a safe house for priests and is over 200 years old. It was named Northern Ireland Pub of The Year in 2009. Seagahan Lake Reservoir is located to the east of the village, and includes the nearby dam and Seagahan Water Treatment Works. Angling is permitted at the reservoir, subject to certain restrictions. In May 2008, Northern Ireland Water commenced a £6.6 Million project to upgrade water treatment technology and infrastructure at the plant in order for it to comply with a new EU directive on water quality. The closest settlements are Granemore to the west, Clady to the south, Corran to the south-west, Keady to the north west, Armagh to the north and Mullaghbrac to the east. The townland was previously part of lands confiscated from Catholic landowners and thereafter ceded to the Earl of Charlemont during the plantation of Ulster,〔Connolly, S.J. (Ed); (2004). ''The Oxford Companion to Irish History''〕 for example James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont. The lands were worked by tenant farmers under the tithe and con-acre system. The majority Catholic population of Ballymacnab was reduced by emigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.〔Economic history of Ireland〕〔Guinnane, T (1997). ''The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland''. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04307-8.〕 Many of the emigrants settled in the west of Scotland and in particular, Glasgow.〔Burrowes, J (2003). ''Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City''. Mainstream Publishing. ISBN 1-84018-685-2〕〔Coogan, T.P. (2002). ''Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora''. Hutchinson Press. ISBN 0-09-995850-3〕〔Sloan, W. Cummings & Devine (Eds) (1997). ''Employment Opportunities and Migrant Group Assimilation: the Highlanders and Irish in Glasgow, 1840-1900'' in ''Proc. Industry, Business & Society''.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballymacnab」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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