ETYMOLOGY OF "ARMAGH."

Some of your correspondents have taken up the not unnatural idea, that the last syllable of the word "Armagh" is identical with the Celtic word *magh*, a plain. But there are two objections to this. In the first place, the name is never spelt in Irish *Armagh*, nor even *Ardmagh*, but always ARDMACHA. *Ardmagh* or *Armagh* is only the anglicised spelling, adapted to English tongues and ears. It is therefore clearly absurd to take this corrupt form of the word as our *datum*, in the attempt to search for its etymology. Secondly, the Irish names of places which are derived from, or compounded of…