Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum

The Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum is a navy museum based in Sovereign's House at Armagh, Northern Ireland. The museum is a Grade B listed constructing. The museum is positioned in a constructing which become constructed within the early nineteenth century on land previously owned by way of the church but leased by way of the Rt. Rev. William Newcome, Archbishop of Armagh, to the Sovereign and burgesses of the City of Armagh. Originally a residential belongings, it turned into transformed to be used as a museum and opened to the general public in 1997.

The collection includes the Victoria Crosses offered to Private Robert Morrow and to Lieutenant Geoffrey Cather of the Royal Irish Fusiliers on the Western Front throughout the First World War. Other highlights include a version demonstrating how Ensign Edward Keogh and Sergeant Patrick Masterson of the 87th Regiment of Foot captured a French Imperial Eagle at the Battle of Barrosa in March 1811 all through the Peninsular War. The Eagle itself has been lost however the workforce on which it were positioned is still held via the museum.