At secondary level, schools attended by the Protestant / unionist community are Lurgan College, and Lurgan Junior High School ( formerly part of Lurgan College of Further Education ).

Lurgan Technical College was renamed Lurgan College of Further Education, and subsequently merged with Portadown CFE and Banbridge CFE into the larger Upper Bann Institute of Further and Higher Education ( UBIFHE ).

She lived in Lurgan as a child and attended Lurgan College where she was one of the first girls there who was permitted to study science.

Category: People educated at Lurgan College

Category: People educated at Lurgan College

* The Magee College bequest is mentioned on the founder's graveyard memorial in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, where her husband was a minister.

Leaving Lurgan College, he proceeded to Queen's College, Belfast, where he studied Law, going on to the University of London to complete his studies.

In 2012 the senior girls 1st XI reached the final of the Ulster Senior Schoolgirls ' Cup and won the competition, beating Lurgan College 2-1.

* Lurgan College 3-15 Cambridge House Grammar School

One theory is that a " Lurgan spade " was an under-paid workman digging what is now the Lurgan Park lake.

Mount Zion House in Edward St, formerly the St Joseph's Convent, is now a cross-community centre run by the Shankill Lurgan Community Association / Community Projects.

Lurgan Park, formerly part of the Brownlows ' estate, and now a public space.

The adjacent Lurgan Park, now a public park owned by Craigavon Borough Council, used to be part of the same estate.

The original church was established at Oxford Island on the shore of Lough Neagh in 1411, but a new church was built in Lurgan on the site of what is now Shankill Cemetery in 1609 as the town became the main centre of settlement in the area.

It was eventually found to be too small given the growth of the town, and the Irish Parliament granted permission to build a replacement in 1725 one mile away on the ' Green of Lurgan ', now known as Church Place, where it stands to this day.

Although behind many activities in the Mid-Ulster area – centred on the Lurgan / Portadown area – including many attacks on civilians, Wright was finally charged with menacing behaviour and sentenced to eight years at the Maze prison.

Part of the Craigavon Borough Council area, Lurgan is about 18 miles ( 29 km ) south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Dublin – Belfast railway line.

There is a figure of speech used in Northern Ireland – to have a face as long as a Lurgan spade – meaning " to look miserable ".

Craigavon sometimes refers to the much larger Craigavon Urban Area, which includes " Craigavon Centre, Brownlow, Lurgan, Portadown, Waringstown and Bleary " – with a population of 57, 685.

Between Craigavon and Aghacommon is the Portadown – Lurgan railway line and Craigavon Lakes.

This makes it difficult to glean an accurate demographic picture of the area that is generally regarded as Craigavon – the mainly residential area between Portadown and Lurgan.

* Lady Emily Julia ( 1871 – 1909 ), married William Brownlow, 3rd Baron Lurgan.

James Logan ( October 20, 1674 – October 31, 1751 ), a statesman and scholar, was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, of Scottish descent and Quaker parentage.

Philip Felix Smith VC ( 5 October 1825 – 16 January 1906 ) was born in Lurgan, County Armagh and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Bernard McQuirt VC ( 1829 – 5 October 1888 ) was born in Donaghcloney near Lurgan, County Armagh and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

William Frederick " Billy " McFadzean VC ( 9 October 1895 – 1 July 1916 ) was born in Lurgan, County Armagh.

This time being drawn against Danish giants FC Kobenhavn, the home leg took place at Mourneview Park, Lurgan and resulted in a 4 – 0 defeat with the return leg two weeks later held in the Danish National Stadium, Parken Stadium and the result again was unfavourable – this time a 7 – 0 defeat.

The success of the 1950s is still the benchmark at this Lurgan club, the closest the club have come to achieving a league success since came in the 1993 – 94 season, when but for two late goals in the final match Glenavon would have been crowned champions.

The 2008 – 09 final between Newry City and Portadown was the first to be played outside Belfast, with Mourneview Park, Lurgan hosting a 1 – 0 win for the Ports.

Lurgan has historically been an industrial town in which the linen industry predominated as a source of employment during the Industrial Revolution, and is said to have employed as many as 18, 000 handloom weavers at the end of the 19th century, a figure significantly higher than the town's resident population at the time.

Lurgan Golf Club is situated at The Demesne beside Lurgan Park and is a 18 hole challenging parkland course bordering on Lurgan lake.

Lurgan railway station opened by the Ulster Railway in 18 November 1841, connecting the town to Belfast Great Victoria Street in the east and Portadown and Armagh in the west.

* 18 October 1989-Robert Metcalfe ( 40 ), a Protestant Civilian was shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) while at his home in Drumnabreeze Road, Magheralin, near Lurgan, County Down.

Today, schools in Lurgan operate under the Dickson Plan, a transfer system in north Armagh that allows pupils at age 11 the option of taking the Eleven Plus exam to enter grammar schools, with pupils in comprehensive junior high schools being sorted into grammar and non-grammar streams.

The UVF's Mid-Ulster Brigade was founded in 1972 in Lurgan by Billy Hanna, a captain in the UDR and a member of the Brigade Staff, who served as the brigade's commander until his shooting death in July 1975.

Jackson was allegedly the hitman who shot Hanna dead outside his home in Lurgan, and subsequently took over his command.

It was named after the town of Lurgan in Northern Ireland.

In 1963 under the Matthew Plan the new city of Craigavon was founded out of the original towns of Portadown and Lurgan.

The approaches to the bay between the Aran Islands and the mainland are as follows ; the North Sound ( An Súnda ó Thuaidh ) lies between Inishmore and Leitir Mealláin in Connemara, it was formerly known as Bealach Locha Lurgan in Irish.

Several months prior to these killings, Mid-Ulster Brigadier Billy Hanna was shot dead outside his Lurgan home on 27 July 1975, allegedly by his successor, Robin Jackson.

In 1963 under the Matthew Plan the new city of Craigavon was founded out of the original towns of Portadown and Lurgan.

The " blue men of Lurgan " were a pair of Lurgan men suffering from what was described as " familial idiopathic methaemoglobinaemia " who were treated by Dr. James Deeny in 1942.

The development of the ' new city ' of Craigavon had a major impact on Lurgan in the 1960s when much industry was attracted to the area.

About 1610, during the Plantation and at a time when the area was sparsely populated by Gaelic peoples, the lands of Lurgan were given to the English lord William Brownlow and his family.

Craigavon was designated as a new town in 1965, intended to be a linear city incorporating the neighbouring towns of Lurgan and Portadown.

The sort of dedicated bicycle and pedestrian paths that were built in Craigavon were also incorporated into newer housing areas in Lurgan, additional land in and around the town was zoned for industrial development, neighbouring rural settlements such as Aghacommon and Aghagallon were developed as housing areas, and there was an increase in the town's population, although not on the scale that had been forecast.

Lurgan was placed under the jurisdiction of Craigavon Borough Council, and today councillors are elected using proportional representation.

The large Goodyear fan-belt factory at Silverwood Industrial Estate was a product of the Craigavon development when large tracts of land in Lurgan, Portadown, and areas in between were zoned off for exclusive industrial use.

A key component of the Craigavon development was a central business district halfway between Lurgan and Portadown that would serve as the city centre for the whole of the new city.

The dog was bought in Lurgan by the Brownlow family, and the song also mentions his owner Charles Brownlow, referred to in the lyrics as Lord Lurgan.

A Lurgan pub was also named after Master McGrath, although it has been renamed in recent years.

In 1893, the land was purchased by Lurgan Borough Council and opened as a public park in 1909 by Earl Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

It was originally owned by the Brownlow family, and today is owned by the Lurgan Loyal Orange District Lodge.