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Ardagh

Ardagh (Ard Áth, meaning "high field" in Irish) may refer to:

Ardagh (surname)

Ardagh is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Arjuna Ardagh, a British-born, US-based speaker and author
  • John Ardagh, a British journalist and author
  • Philip Ardagh, a British children's author
  • Sir John Charles Ardagh (1840-1907), Waterford-born Anglo-Irish diplomat, Major-General; Director of Military Intelligence 1900, KCMG
  • Seán Ardagh (1947–2016), an Irish politician
  • William Davis Ardagh, an Irish-born Canadian lawyer and politician
Ardagh (barony)

Ardagh is a barony in County Longford, Republic of Ireland.

Usage examples of "ardagh".

Major General Sir John Ardagh, after winning honors in Hebrew and mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, had changed from a clerical to a military career.

Sir John Ardagh pointed out there would be nothing to prevent a state from constructing rifles of a new pattern and storing them in arsenals until needed.

Developed by the British to stop the rush of fanatical tribesmen, the bullets were vigorously defended by Sir John Ardagh against the heated attack of all except the American military delegate, Captain Crozier, whose country was about to make use of them in the Philippines.

Behind the flippant words Ardagh was making the point that war was a bitter business and, more politely than Fisher, was ridiculing the notion that it could be civilized.

He wanted to ask if they had any ideas about what use all the silvered weapons and silver chains and silver armor he and all the other smiths had made in Ardagh Vale might have been put.

In the days before Bran Brownbeard, Allovale was rich and rivaled Ardagh for its grandeur.

We were called the Silver Kings, and we lived higher than the King of Humbria himself in our palaces that were grander by far than either Ardagh or Gar.

Molly as Cecily paused at the very top, and the newly elected ArchDruid of Ardagh stepped forward.

Daveog, Count Ros Commain, demands immediate return of his baronies of Clonlogan, Shrule, Ardagh, West Kilkenny, Rathcline, and Moydow.

Taking its place beside the Ardagh Chalice and the Book of Kells, a small box was discovered buried on a hillside in County Clare.

Many unique objects dothe Ardagh chalice, the Kingston brooch, the Sutton Hoo treasure.