| Official Name: | Mullaghbawn |
| Irish Name: | an Mullach Bán |
| Static Image Name: | Mullaghbane Folk Museum - geograph.org.uk - 256204.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Mullaghbawn Folk Museum |
| Map Type: | Northern Ireland |
| Coordinates: | 54.111°N -6.478°W |
| Label Position: | none |
| Population: | 642 |
| Population Ref: | (2021) |
| Irish Grid Reference: | H995191 |
| Unitary Northern Ireland: | Newry & Mourne |
| Country: | Northern Ireland |
| Post Town: | NEWRY |
| Postcode Area: | BT |
| Postcode District: | BT35 |
| Dial Code: | 028, +44 28 |
| Constituency Westminster: | Newry & Armagh |
| Constituency Ni Assembly: | Newry & Armagh |
| Lieutenancy Northern Ireland: | County Armagh |
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Mullaghbawn (or ;),[1] [2] or Mullaghbane, is a small village and townland near Slieve Gullion in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 596.[3] At the 2021 Census this had risen to 642.[4]
A barracks was built near Mullaghbawn in 1689 and was known as Shanroe Barracks. The building was a small outpost build to help to suppress the activities of the rapparees and eventually abandoned in 1750. Forkill rectory was built in 1775 in the townland of Shanroe nearer the village of Mullaghbane. This meant that the rector had to travel almost two miles from his home to his church in Forkhill on foot or on horseback. The outbreak of sectarian violence between the Peep o' Day Boys and the Catholic Defenders in the Mulllaghbane and Forkill areas in the 1780s and early 1790s meant that a new barracks was required to house a company of foot soldiers. Belmont Barracks was later built overlooking the site of the rectory in 1795. The Forkhill Yeomanry was formed when the barracks was opened. By 1821 Belmont Barracks had become obsolete and was sold. The main barracks building remains is currently two private homes.[5] The rectory ceased to be occupied by 1920 and was burned by the local IRA in 1922 before it was to be taken over by British forces. The remains of the Rectory's ruined gatehouse is still standing along a laneway to the right on the road from the village to Belmont.
Mullaghbawn, along with the rest of South Armagh, would have been transferred to the Irish Free State had the recommendations of the Irish Boundary Commission been enacted in 1925.[6]
Mullaghbawn Folk Museum is a traditional two-roomed thatched farmhouse and outbuildings, restored by the Mullaghbawn Historical Group during the 1970s and filled with artefacts depicting the lifestyles of the people of the Ring of Gullion in the last century.
Tí Chulainn is a cultural heritage centre, with accommodation and function rooms, set at the bottom of Slieve Gullion.[8]
The local GAA club is Mullaghbawn Cúchullain's GFC (Cumann Chú Chullain, An Mullach Bán).[9]