Armagh, South Australia
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Armagh | |||||||||||||
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 The old disused kiln and chimney | |||||||||||||
  Armagh Location in South Australia | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 33°50′S 138°35′E / 33.833°S 138.583°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Mid North | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 1850 | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| • Mayor | Allan Aughey | ||||||||||||
| • State electorate | |||||||||||||
| • Federal division | |||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| • Total | 351 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 5453 | ||||||||||||
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Armagh is a small historic village in the western Clare Valley, about 137 km north of Adelaide, South Australia.
The village was named after the town and county of Armagh in Ireland.[2] It was founded in 1850 to benefit from the new copper mine, operated by the Royal Mining Company at nearby Emu Flat. The mine was built as part of a mania for copper mining prompted by the large copper finds at Burra and Kapunda but, though some mining efforts continued until 1910, was never successful commercially.[3]
