Down District). The local authority is Newry, Mourne and Down District Council. Transport Crossmaglen is served by Ulsterbus, route no. 42. Gaelic games Crossmaglen in recent years has become known for its Gaelic football team, Crossmaglen Rangers, who won the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2011 and again in 2012. The manager and several players of Rangers went on to win the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship with their county team in 2002 and reached the final again in 2003, only to lose to neighbours Tyrone. One of Crossmaglen's most notable players is Oisín McConville, who is also Ulster's top scoring player. The county team were also in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final in 1953; local players Gene Morgan and Frank Kernan were on the team but they were defeated by Kerry. Armagh also made it to the 1977 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, but were beaten by Dublin. There was an ongoing dispute for years between Crossmaglen Rangers, the Morgan family of Crossmaglen, and the British Army over the positioning of the army base which was placed on the Rangers pitch and on the back garden of the Morgan family home on Cardinal Ó Fiaich Square. This was remedied, beginning in April 1999. Crossmaglen Rangers hold the national record of 39 county titles, including 13 in a row. They also hold the record of nine Ulster club titles. People Charles Armstrong - Forced disappearance victim Francie Bellew - Gaelic footballer Gerard Evans - Forced disappearance victim Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet - The third Chief Manager of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich - Primate of All Ireland (head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland) Aaron Kernan - Gaelic footballer Joe Kernan - Gaelic footballer and Manager Jim McAllister - Politician, Sinn Féin Oisín McConville - Gaelic footballer John McEntee - Gaelic footballer Edward George Richardson - Member of Parliament for South Armagh, Nationalist Party and Independent Nationalist Demographics 2001 Census Crossmaglen is classified as a village by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with population between 1,000 and 2,250 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 1,459 people living in Crossmaglen. Of these: 27.0% were aged under 16 and 14.8% were aged 60 and over 48.6% of the population were male and 51.4% were female 97.0% were from a Catholic background and 0.8%