placenamesSilverbridge
Béal Átha an Airgid
Local football records and the career of Jarlath Burns connect Silverbridge with the wider GAA; contemporary reporting also preserves the memory of the 1975 attack at Donnelly’s Bar.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Béal Átha an Airgid · Irish · main form · validated name
- Silverbridge · English · main form
Place & story
Early Silverbridge teams
The local club history identifies a team formed under the Silverbridge name in 1906, although it lasted only a year. Another affiliation followed around 1920. The account records changes of name during this period, a county semi-final appearance in 1924 and a runner-up finish in the junior league in 1936. These details show an interrupted early development rather than a single unbroken team history. [2]
Jarlath Burns and the local club
Jarlath Burns’s association with Silverbridge extends beyond his county playing career. The GAA’s account of his election as its forty-first president records that he was his club’s secretary at the time and had served it in several roles over decades. Burns also played thirteen seasons for Armagh and captained the county to the 1999 Ulster senior football title. His accession to the presidency in February 2024 brought a long-serving Silverbridge club member into the association’s highest elected office. [3]
Donnelly’s Bar, December 1975
On 19 December 1975 gunmen attacked Donnelly’s Bar at Silverbridge, firing outside and then inside before an explosive device was thrown through the doorway. Three people died and others were injured. An RTÉ news report broadcast the following day covered the attack alongside the earlier bombing outside Kay’s Tavern in Dundalk. The archive preserves contemporary reporting of an evening of violence affecting communities on both sides of the border. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Fews Upper
- Civil parish
- Creggan
- Within
- Legmoylin
- Coordinates
- 54.10206, -6.53226 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 136072 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Silverbridge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Silverbridge Harps: Club History · Silverbridge Harps
- Jarlath Burns to become 41st Uachtarán CLG, 22 February 2024 · Gaelic Athletic Association
- Deadly Pub Attacks 1975: report broadcast 20 December 1975 · RTÉ Archives, Rowan Hand
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-12-20. How this page was prepared.