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Markethill is a village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,292 people. A livestock market is held here three times a week and each summer the largest Lambeg Drumming competition in Northern Ireland takes place in the village.
History
The village of Markethill was founded by a Scottish family, the Achesons of Gosford, or Goseford, Haddingtonshire (East Lothian), who received a grant of 1,000 acres (4 km²) from King James I in 1610. The Achesons built a strong castle at Cloncarney around 1617, but it was destroyed in the war of 1641. It was replaced with a manor house, visited by Jonathan Swift, in the late 1720s, who devised the existing nature walks throughout the grounds, where he composed poems. The manor house although occupied to 1840, has practically disappeared. In 1819, Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, (a peerage bestowed on the family in 1776), commissioned the construction of Gosford Castle.
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