Lurgan

• Abbreviations used in these GENUKI County Armagh pages
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  • LDS = Latter Day Saints
  • NLI = National Library of Ireland
  • PRO = National Archives (formerly, the Public Record Office) at Kew, England
  • PRONI = Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
  • QUB = Queen's University, Belfast
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• Book list
• Dictionary of Ulster Biography
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Cooper, S.J.W., William F McFadzen - a Lurgan Hero, Vol. 4 No. 2
  • Malcolmson, T.J., Alexander Cuppage of Silverwood House, Vol. 3 No. 3
  • Malcolmson, T.J., James Logan - Secretary to William Penn, Vol. 1 No. 2
  • Malcolmson, T.J., Ralph Pearce, alias Richard Harlow, Vol. 3 No. 1
  • McElroy, Eric, George William Russell (Æ) 1867-1937, Vol. 8 No. 2
  • Wilson, Ian, Edward Vaughan Boulger (1848-19??), First Headmaster of Lurgan College, Vol. 8 No. 3
  • Wilson, Ian, William Thompson Kirkpatrick, Vol. 8 No. 1

• 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. (D/2339), part of the Greer, Lowry and Alexander papers
  • Lurgan Bank document (T/2335)
  • Lurgan Gas document (D/2583)
  • Lurgan hardware shop document (T/2113)

• Margorie McCall, from The Living Dead in Lurgan - from the BBC's web pages
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Cooper, S.J.W., Lynastown burial ground, Vol. 1 No. 1
  • McCorry, Dr F.X., Shankill Graveyard, Lurgan, Vol. 8 No. 2
• Shankill graveyard - from the BBC's web pages - includes sound clips

• 1901 census for Lurgan Urban D.E.D. (District Electoral Division) - LDS film numbers
• 1911 census for Lurgan Urban D.E.D. - LDS film numbers
• Principal Residents in the Town of Lurgan 1840 - hosted by Ulster Ancestry
• Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • McCorry, Francis X., A glimpse of four Northern Ireland towns in the mid-nineteenth century, Vol. 5 No. 3
  • McCorry, Francis X., Demographic crisis in Shankill Parish, Lurgan, Vol. 4 No. 3 (includes burials from the Shankill)
  • McCorry, Francis X., Residential Stability and Population Mobility in Lurgan, 1856-64, Vol. 5 No. 3

• Church of Ireland
• Baptist Church
• Free Presbyterian Congregation
• Presbyterian
• Religious Society of Friends
• Roman Catholic

• Book list
• Biography
  • Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
    • Cassells, D.B., For the Love of God (the story of Thomas Millar), Vol. 6 No. 1
    • Malcolmson, T.J., Dicky Barton an eccentric Lurgan curate, Vol. 2 No. 1
    • Malcolmson, T.J., Isaac Bullick and the rise of Methodism in Lurgan, Vol. 2 No. 3
• Coote, Charles, Sir, Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, pub. 1804
• Religious Society of Friends
  • Bibliography - "Books of Special Quaker Interest" - from the Quakers in Ireland site
  • Subscribers to Lurgan Quaker Church, 1695 - hosted by Ulster Ancestry
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Cassells, D.B., Presbyterianism in Lurgan, 1684-1984, Vol. 5 No. 1
  • Chapman, George R., Quaker meeting places in the Lurgan area in the 17th century, Vol. 2 No. 1
  • Clendinning, Kieran, The burning of the church steeple, 1996/97

• Church of Ireland
• Methodist
• Presbyterian
• Religious Society of Friends
• Roman Catholic

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

• ---, 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]
• 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
  • Culbert, Walter, Birds of Lurgan Park (a systematic list of birds recorded in Lurgan Park 1957-84), Vol. 5 No. 1
  • Friel, Charles P., Railways in Craigavon, Vol. 2 No. 2
  • Hill, Elaine, The W.A. Gracey Photographic Collection, Vol. 8 No. 3
  • Martin, Bertie, Lurgan's Talking Statue, Vol. 8 No. 1
  • Sleator, Arnold G., Memories of William Street, Vol. 6 No. 1

• Geograph
• Flickr

• 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
  • Index of 146 entries for residents of the Town of Lurgan
• 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
  • Index of 329 entries for residents of the Town of Lurgan
• 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

• Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Creery, P., Early Settlers in Lurgan, Vol. 2 No. 2
  • Fitzgerald, Dr. Patrick, Emigration from the Craigavon District and the Irish Emigration Database Project, Vol. 8 No. 2

• Coote, Charles, Sir, Excerpt from Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, pub. 1804
• Description of the Town of Lurgan, from Henry Bassett's County Armagh 100 years ago
• Lewis, Samuel, Excerpt from Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, pub. 1837

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Lurgan to another place.

• 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 family 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 - PRONI ref. D1252, as described in the PRONI's leaflet, 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
    • Creery, P., Early settlers in Lurgan, Vol. 2 No. 2
    • Creery, P., Family names in Lurgan, Vol. 1 No. 1
    • McCorry, Francis X., Infant mortality in Northern Irish provincial towns, Vol. 5 No. 1

• Weatherup, D.R.M., The Site of Craigavon, from Review - The Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 2 No. 1

• Book list
• Bradshaw, Thomas, Historical Account of the Town of Lurgan - from The General Directory of Newry, Armagh, and the towns of Dungannon, Portadown, Tandragee, Lurgan, etc., pub. 1819
• Periodicals and journals
  • Review: Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
    • Culbert, Walter, Birds of Lurgan Park, Vol. 5 No. 1
    • Gailey, Alan, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Folk drama in the Craigavon area, Vol. 3 No. 2
    • Gamble, J.A. and Rosalind Hadden, Historical references to the Craigavon area, Vol. 8 No. 2
    • McCorry, Francis X., Trees and Man in the Craigavon Area, Vol. 2 No. 3
    • McCorry, F.X., Lurgan 1693, Vol. 6 No. 1
    • Sleator, A.G., Memories of William Street, Lurgan, Vol. 6 No. 1
• Societies
  • The Craigavon Historical Society
    • Lutton, S.C., The Craigavon Historical Society comes of age, Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 6 No. 1

• Gillespie, R.G., Settlement and Survival on an Ulster Estate: The Brownlow Leasebook 1667-1711 (Belfast: PRONI, 1998)
• PRONI holdings, Belfast:
  • Lurgan Glebelands document (D/2065)
• Residents of Lurgan Town 1755-58, from a rental roll - hosted by Ulster Ancestry
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Clendinning, K., In the wake of progress, Vol. 3 No. 2
  • Cooper, S.J.W., Roof construction in traditional houses in the Craigavon area, Vol. 1 No. 1
  • McCorry, Francis X., A glimpse of four Northern Ireland towns in the mid-nineteenth century, Vol. 5 No. 3
  • McCorry, Frank, Residential stability and population mobility in Lurgan, 1858-64, vol. 5 No. 3

• Brownlow House, built by Charles Brownlow, 1st Lord Lurgan, 1836+, ref. Mark Bence-Jones, The Country House Database [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
  • Follis, Bryan A., The Brownlow Papers, Vol. 5 No. 3
  • Clendinning, K., Brownlow Castle - a legacy of the past, Vol. 3 No. 1

You can see maps centred on OSI grid reference J0819258337 (Lat/Lon: 54.462006, -6.332331), Lurgan which are provided by:

• OpenStreetMap
• Google Maps
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Copy Lurgan and paste it along with the county name into the search box at Ordnance Survey Ireland.
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

• Lurgan Men in the Great War - from the BCC's web pages
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • William F. McFadzean V.C. - Heroic man who sacrificed his life for his comrades, Vol. 5 No. 2
  • Grayson, Leslie, Tales from Kinnego (2) Meatballs - American Style, Vol. 7 No. 1
  • Clendinning, K., The Lurgan Volunteers, 1996/97
  • McElroy, Eric, A bad day at Magill's ford - The Battle of Gilford, Vol. 6 No. 3
  • Wilson, Ian, Lurgan College War Memorial, Vol. 7 No. 3

• 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])

• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Creery, P., Family Names in Lurgan, Vol. 1 No. 1

• Historical newspapers published at Lurgan - holdings at the British Library
• Online sources - Transcription projects at Ireland Old News
  • Portadown Weekly News, and County Armagh Advertiser
  • The Lurgan Chronicle and Northern Advertiser

• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Clendinning, Kieran, The Armagh Bye-Election of 1753 (Francis Caulfield v. William Brownlow), Vol. 2 No. 1
  • Clendinning, K., The Brownlow family and the rise of Lurgan, Vol. 1 No. 1
  • Follis, Bryan A., The Brownlow Papers, Vol. 5 No. 3
• 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

• 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.]

• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Cooper, S.J.W., The Carrier (Johnny Kirk), Vol. 2 No. 2
  • Gardiner, Charles, Ezekiel Bullock, a Lurgan Clockmaker, Vol. 5 No. 2
  • McGeown, William, All in a day's work - Memories from the farm over 75 years, Vol. 7 No. 3

• 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)]

• ---, 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]

• Lurgan Poor Law Union, from Peter Higginbotham's The Story of Workhouses
• PRONI holdings, Belfast:
  • Lurgan Poor Law Union records, PRONI ref. BG/22, as described in PRONI's leaflet, Poor Law Records
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Gardiner, C., Lurgan workhouse, Vol. 6 No. 1
  • MacAtasney, Gerard, Some aspects of the Great Famine in Lurgan Poor Law Union 1845-47, Vol. 7 No. 1
  • McCorry, F.X., The famine of 1846-48, Vol. 3 No. 3

• 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)

• PRONI holdings, Belfast:
  • Architectural plans and drawings of the model school at Lurgan (ED/12/1-6), as described in the PRONI's guide, Ministry/Department of Education Archive
  • Derryoughan School House Co. Armagh (D/1553)
  • Lurgan College papers (D/3664)
  • Lurgan Free School: registers and documents, and papers relating to other schools on the Brownlow estate - part of the Brownlow collection (D/1928) [citation from RASCAL]
• Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society
  • Clendinning, Kieran, Convent Schools, 1996/97
  • Hunter, E., Secondary education in Lurgan 50 years ago, Vol. 5 No. 2
  • Wilson, Ian, 19th century schools in Lurgan - Part 1, Vol. 4 No. 3
  • Wilson, Ian, 19th century schools in Lurgan - Part 2, Vol. 5 No. 1
  • Wilson, Ian, Lurgan College register 1873-1899, Vol. 6 No. 3
  • Wilson, Ian, Lurgan High School register, Vol. 6 No. 1

• ---, 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
  • Bell, G.P., Lough Neagh and the local sailing club, 1978
  • Gailey, Alan, Folk Drama in the Craigavon Area, Vol. 3 No. 2
  • Wilson, Ian, A Nineteenth Century Love Story (Albert Lewis and Edie Macoun), Vol. 7 No. 1
• Tallon, Alfie, Fireside gleanings, A. Tallon, Lurgan, [1988?] [NLI: 3A 231 & 2A 789, Coll. A.]

• ---, 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.]

• Valuation Records
  • 1848-1864, General valuation of rateable property in Ireland, "Griffith's Valuation"
    • Listed every occupier of land, the lessor of that land, size of the holding, and the rate payable on that holding
    • Parish of Shankill segment -- online at John Hayes' web site

• Cooper, S.W., List of townlands in the Greater Craigavon Area, from Review - Journal of the Craigavon Historical Society, Vol. 1 No. 2, showing the District Electoral Divisions and Townlands situate in Counties Down and Armagh