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Lurgan is a civil parish and electoral division in County Cavan, Ireland. Lurgan is also part of the historical barony of Castlerahan . [ 1 ] The Catholic parish of Lurgan is also sometimes called Virginia , after the largest town in the parish and surrounding area.
Middle Row, Lurgan, in the late 19th century Birds-eye view of Lurgan in the early 20th century Edward Street, Lurgan, in the early 20th century. The name Lurgan is an anglicisation of the Irish name An Lorgain, literally meaning "the shin", but within the context of placenames refers to a "shin"-shaped hill or ridge (i.e., long, low and narrow).
Map of the Rural and Urban Districts of Northern Ireland in 1967. The urban and rural districts of Northern Ireland were created in 1899 when the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 came into effect. They were based on the system of district councils introduced in England and Wales four years earlier.
The system of local government Ireland, then wholly within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was reformed by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, which came into force in 1899. The new system divided Ireland into the following entities: At the county level: Administrative counties; and; County boroughs
Ireland portal This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,979 townlands in County Cavan, Ireland. Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county. Names marked in bold typeface are towns and villages, and the word Town appears for those entries in the Acres column. Townland list Townland Acres Barony Civil parish Poor law union Abbey Land 9 ...
Lurgan forms part of the Upper Bann constituencies for the Northern Ireland Assembly and UK Parliament. It was created for the 1985 local elections, replacing Craigavon Area D which had existed since 1973, where it contained seven wards (Church, Knocknashane, Magheralin, Mourneview, Parklake, Taghnevan and Waringstown).
Munterconnaught is one of the few locations in Ireland to have early census returns that survive. The destruction of the Public Records Office in the Four Courts in 1922 destroyed all surviving Irish census records from before the 1901 census, and most Church of Ireland records, with rare exceptions. Munterconnaught's census records from 1821 ...
Derrymacash (from Irish Doire Mhic Cais, meaning 'Oakgrove of MacCash') [1] is a small village and townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is about four miles west of Lurgan, between the M1 motorway and Lough Neagh. It had a population of 629 in the 2001 census. [2]