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"Shankill, a parish, partly in the barony of LOWER IVEAGH, county of DOWN, but chiefly in that of ONEILLAND EAST, county of ARMAGH, and province of ULSTER, on the mail coach road from Belfast to Enniskillen ; containing, with the post-town of Lurgan, 7758 inhabitants. This parish comprises, according to the Ordnance Survey, 6584 statute acres, of which 4931-1/2 are in the county of Armagh, and 1652-1/2 in Down ; of these, 59-1/2 acres are in lakes at Lurgan, and 362 in Lough Neagh. ... The principal seat is Lurgan House, the splendid residence of the Rt. Hon. Charles Brownlow (proprietor of the parish), a spacious structure in the Elizabethan style, beautifully situated in a richly wooded demesne with two fine artificial lakes, and embellished with timber of luxuriant and stately growth ; the approach is by a handsome lodge and gateway of corresponding character, the whole of freestone brought from Scotland. The other seats are Woodville, the residence of G. Greer, Esq. ; Silverwood, of Thos. Cuppage, Esq. ; and Grace Hall, of C. Douglas, Esq. : there are also numerous handsome residences in the town of Lurgan. The linen manufacture is carried on to a great extent throughout the parish, in connection with the large establishments in the town ; and diapers, lawns, cambricks of every superior quality are made in great quantities.."

[From the Shankill segment of Lewis' Topographical Dictionary (1837)]

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Archives & Libraries

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Biography

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Business & Commerce Records

  • Clendinning, Kieran, The development of the linen industry in the Lurgan area, from Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 7 No. 1
  • Lurgan Gas-Light Co., Deed of co-partnership of the Lurgan Gas-Light Company dated 13th day of August, 1845, Lurgan, 1846 [NLI: P 862, Coll. P.]
  • Lurgan Loan Fund, Report of the trustees of the Lurgan Loan Fund to the Commissioners of the Loan Fund Board of Ireland, February 1848, Hodges and Smith, Dublin, 1848 [NLI: Ir 3306 d 4, Coll. Ir.]
  • PRONI holdings in Belfast:
    • J.N. Richardson, Sons & Owden, Ltd., part of the Greer, Lowry and Alexander papers (D/2339)
    • Lurgan Bank document (T/2335)
    • Lurgan Gas document (D/2583)
    • Lurgan hardware shop document (T/2113)
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Cemeteries

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Census

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Churches

Presbyterian / Unitarian
Hill Street, Lurgan, Presbyterian
Other
Diamond Gospel Hall, Drumnykerne, Gospel Hall
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Church Directories

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Church History

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Church Records

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Court Records

  • Manorial court books of the Lurgan estate, and papers relating to Lurgan Couthouse - in the Brownlow papers, held at the PRONI (ref. D/1928)
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Description & Travel

  • ---, Craigavon official guide, issued by authority of the Borough Council of Craigavon, Municipal Publicity Ltd, Macclesfield, 1993 [QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h DA994.C88/CRAI]
  • ---, Craigavon Borough: official guide, Home Publishing, Wallington, [1981?] [NLI: Ir 91411 p 8, Coll. Ir.]
  • Craigavon, Borough Council, Craigavon borough: offical guide, Home Publishing, Wallington, [1984] [NLI: Ir 914116 c 14, Coll. Ir.]
  • Ed. J. Burrow & Co., Lurgan: the official guide, published by authority of the Lurgan Borough Co., 3rd ed., Cheltenham, 1951 [QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h p DA994.L9/BURR]
  • Environment and Heritage Service [EHSNI], Northern Ireland landscape character assessment series, Environment and Heritage Service, Belfast, 1999 (Research and Development Series ; no. 99/14) [QUB: Science Lib., Belfast Campus - RB/ pq HT395.N6/LAND]
  • Portadown, Craigavon Borough Council, Focus: information guide on Craigavon New Town [NLI: Ir 05 p 45, Coll. Ir.]
  • Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
You can see pictures of Shankill which are provided by:

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Directories

  • 1820 - Thomas Bradshaw, The general directory of Newry, Armagh, and the towns of Dungannon, Portadown, Tandragee, Lurgan, Waringstown, Banbridge, Warrenpoint, Rosstrevor, Kilkeel, Rathfriland, 1820, Davidson Books, Ballynahinch, 1984
  • 1820/1 - Pigot, J., The Commercial directory, of Ireland, Scotland, and the four most northern counties of England, for 1820-21 and 1822. 1820/21 & 22 - LDS film 0962702, Item 1
  • 1824 - J. Pigot and Co., City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory
  • 1839 - Mathew Martin, Belfast Directory. Also 1841, 1842
  • 1840 - Lennox, William, The new commercial directory of Armagh, Newry, Londonderry, Drogheda, Dundalk, Monaghan, Omagh, Strabane, Dungannon, Lisburn, Lurgan, Portadown, and neighbouring towns; containing a history of those towns ... [Part I.]-II, pr. at the Standard Office, Derry, 1840
  • 1843 - Henderson, John, Henderson's new Belfast directory, and Northern Repository for 1843-44; containing information relating to the counties of Antrim, Armagh, and Down, with lists of the inhabitants of the chief towns, also an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of Belfast, together with a street directory, and a classification of trades and professions, Henderson, Belfast, 1843
  • 1846 - Slater, National Commercial Directory of Ireland
  • 1852 - James A. Henderson, Belfast and Province of Ulster Directory
    • Issued also in 1854, 1856, 1858, 1861, 1863, 1865, 1868, 1870, 1877, 1880, 1884, 1887, 1890, 1894, 1900
  • 1856 - Slater, Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland
  • 1865 - R. Wynne, Business Directory of Belfast
  • 1870 - Slater, Directory of Ireland
  • 1881 - Slater, Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland
  • 1883 - The Armagh (County) directory and almanac: for 1883, Eighth yearly issue, Pr. and publ. by S. Farrell, Portadown, [1883]
  • 1888 - Henry Bassett, County Armagh 100 years ago, a guide and directory, 1888, Friars Bush, Belfast, 1989
  • 1910 - Lurgan, County Armagh, from the Belfast and Ulster Towns Directory for 1910 - hosted by Library Ireland
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Emigration & Immigration

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Gazetteers

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Genealogy

  • Thompson, Matt, Lurgan 1901 [NLI: 3B 1050 and 3B 1051, Coll. B.]
  • Families
    • Macan, John David (1949-), Dr. Frances Steer, editor, MacCana of Clanbrassil, an ancestral and family history, Ashgrove, Queensland, 1997
      • NLI: 9292 m 82, Coll Ir.
    • PRONI holdings, Belfast:
      • Adair of Loughanmore papers: records of property in Lurgan and other places in County Armagh (D/3860, MIC/553)
      • Byrne document (T/25069)
      • Carleton, Atkinson & Sloan, solicitors at Portadown: records include title deeds, legal papers, etc. relating to the Wakefield and Richardson families at Moyallen and Gilford, Co. Down and in the Lurgan and Portadown area, c1780-c1914 (D1252), as described in the PRONI's guide, Solicitors' Archives
      • Hoope family (MIC/76)
      • Malcomson documents (T/2769)
      • McCarter and Lurgan LOL documents (T/1814)
      • Watson papers (MIC/98)
    • Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
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Historical Geography

  • Weatherup, D.R.M., The Site of Craigavon, from Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 2 No. 1
The civil parish of Shankill contained the townlands of:
Aghnacloy, Ballyblagh, Clanrolla, Cornakinnegar, Demesne, Derry, Dougher, Drumnamoe, Drumnykerne, Killaghy, Kilmore (Near Lurgan), Knocknashane, Legaghory, Liscorran, Lurgantarry, Monbrief, Taghnevan, Tannaghmore North, Tannaghmore South, Tirsogue, Toberhewny, Tullydagan, Tullygally, Tullyronnelly,
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History

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Land & Property

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Manors

  • Brownlow House, built by Charles Brownlow, 1st Lord Lurgan, 1836+, ref. Mark Bence-Jones, in A Guide to Irish Country Houses, 2nd ed., Trafalgar Square Books, 1996
  • Landed Estates Records held at the PRONI
  • Major Collections held at the PRONI
    • The Bath and Brownlow Estate Papers
    • The Brownlow Papers
  • Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
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Maps

You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference J0821659572 (Lat/Lon: 54.473084, -6.331507), Shankill which are provided by:

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Military History

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Names, Geographical

  • Ó Mainnín, Mícheál Breandán, Townland and other place-names of Irish-language origin in the parishes of A... [QUB: Science Lib., Belfast Campus: T/ q /2002.H174]
  • Ó Paircín, Liam, in AINM, Journal of the Ulster Place-name Society, Index of Contents, AINM - I-VIII
    • Lurgan, An Lorgain III (1988), 20; VII (1996-97), 144 (= BUPNS Series I Vol. 1 Part 2 (Spring 1953), 26 [11]); VII (1996-97), 155 (= BUPNS Series I Vol. 1 Part 2 (Spring 1953), 37 [25])
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Names, Personal

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Newspapers

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Nobility

  • Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Sources
    • Holdings at the PRONI, Belfast
      • Barons Lurgan: Documents and papers references for the period fl1610-fl1950: D/1928, D/1905/2/68/6, D/3860, D/1905, D/1600
      • Brownlow, Charles, 1st Lord Lurgan
        • Documents and papers references for the period 1795-1847: D/366/638, D/366/639, D/366/445, D/366/547, D/366/640, D/671/C/12, D/545/7
      • Leases giving gaming rights to individuals on the Brownlow estate 1870-80 (D/1928/L)
      • Lord Lurgan, 2nd
        • Documents and papers references for the period 1831-1882: D/1905/2/154, T/1831, D/1600, D/545/9, D/545/10, D/639/132B
        • Lord Lurgan's greyhound account book 1830-1890 (D/1928/A)
      • Lord Lurgan, 3rd
        • Documents and papers references for the period 1858-1937: D/1905/2/1, D/1905/2/1A, T2530/, T2769, T2486/2/25
      • The Bath and Brownlow Estate Papers
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Obituaries

  • Millar, Thomas, In memoriam. The late Rev. Thomas Millar, of Lurgan, Ireland, killed in an accident on the Trent Valley Railway ... Monday 10th May, 1858, Belfast, 1858 [NLI: P 991, Coll. P.]
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Occupations

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Periodicals

  • The Lurgan parochial magazine. (Lurgan) [QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h BX5410/.L9; Jul. 1880-Oct. 1881]
  • Ulula [Magazine of Lurgan College]. - 95. Lurgan : Lurgan College, 1995 [QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h q LF955.L9/ULUL, and 65406869 (Spec Colls)]
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Politics & Government

  • ---, Report of the proceedings at the formation of the Lurgan Brunswick Constitutional Club, 9th October, 1828, Printed at the Guardian Office, Belfast, 1828 [NLI: P 397(12), Coll. P.]
  • ---, Town improvement act, 1854. Town of Lurgan. Fifth annual report of the commissioners to the ratepayers, Printed at the "Gazette" Office, by Richard J. Evans, Lurgan, 1860 [NLI: P 356(2), Coll. P.]
  • Clendinning, Kieran, Represented North Armagh (Colonel Saunderson), from Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, 1996/97
  • Communist Party of Ireland, Craigavon in the dock: an indictment by the Communist Party of Ireland, [Belfast]: 1938 [NLI: Ir 3239 p 70, Coll. Ir.; QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h p DA974/COMM]
  • O'Donnell, C. J. (Charles James) (1850-1934), Outraged Ulster: why Ireland is rebellious: with an introductory letter to the Right Honourable Viscount Craigavon, Anglo-Eastern Pub. Co., [London?], c1932 [NLI: Ir 94108 o 11, Coll. Ir.]
  • O'Connell, Daniel (1775-1847), Letter from Daniel O'Connell to his wife Mary, 1825 Apr. 20 [NLI: Ms 33,565/24(14), Coll. Ms.]
  • Shearman, Hugh, Not an inch, a study of Northern Ireland and Lord Craigavon, Faber and Faber Limited, London [1942] [NLI: Ir 32341 s 20, Coll. Ir.; QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h DA973/SHEA]
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Poor Houses, Poor Law

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Public Records

  • PRONI holdings:
    • Lawrence William Papers (T/2347)
    • Lurgan Charities document (T27)
    • Lurgan documents (T/2365)
    • Lurgan postcards (D/2612)
    • Lurgan Town Improvement Commissioners papers (T/3077)
    • Rolls Order Lurgan Charities documents (T/24 and T/25)
    • The Brownlow Papers (D/1928)
    • Waring Manuscripts (D/695)
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Schools

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Social Life & Customs

  • ---, Feis Lurgan ... 1949. [Programme], [n.pub.] 1949 [NLI: Ir 49162 f 7, Coll. Ir.\
  • ---, Lurgan: interestng sketches of life and happenings in the early history of the early history of the town, Lurgan Mail Printing Co, Lurgan, 1929 [QUB: Main Lib., Belfast Campus (Special Colls) - h p DA994.L9/LURG]
  • ---, Lurgan Masonic bazaar: a grand bazaar and fancy fair held in Brownlow House and grounds, Lurgan on June 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th, 1895 / under the patronage of the Grand Lodge of F. and A. Masons of Ireland and the Provincial Grand Lodge of Armagh, R. Aickin & Co., Belfast, 1895 [Held at the NLI, but call no. information not available]
  • Fearon, Kate and Amanda Verlaque, editors, Lurgan champagne and other tales : real life stories from Northern Ireland, Livewire Books, London, 2001 [NLI: 2A 1361, Coll. A.; QUB: Armagh Campus Lib. - WRC/ HQ792.N8/FEAR]
  • Lurgan: Some characters - from the BBC's web pages
  • Players on Stage - from the BBC's web pages
  • PRONI holdings, Belfast:
    • Lurgan Glenavon Supporters' Club 1948-49 (FIN/15/6/A)
  • Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Tallon, Alfie, Fireside gleanings, A. Tallon, Lurgan, [1988?] [NLI: 3A 231 & 2A 789, Coll. A.]
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Societies

  • ---, Speech by James Kennedy, for the reform meeting Lurgan, prevented by indisposition, but, by desire, introduced and delivered, at the Farmers' Society Dinner. William John Hancock, Esq. in the chair, Printed by Joseph Smyth, Belfast, 1831 [NLI: P 397(9), Coll. P.]
  • Lurgan Building Society, Rules of the Lurgan Building Society established under 13 & 14 Victoria, Cap. 115, Lurgan, 1885 [NLI: P 862, Coll. P.]
  • Lurgan Protestant Total Abstinence Union papers (D/3237), held at the PRONI, Belfast
  • Smyth, Cecil, The light of other days: a brief history of St. John's Masonic Lodge No. 134, Lurgan, Lorgan [sic] Mail Press, Lurgan, 1950 [NLI: Ir 366 s 22, Coll. Ir.]
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Taxation

  • Valuation Records
    • 1848-1864, General valuation of ratetable property in Ireland, "Griffith's Valuation"
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Voting Registers