Loughgall
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Refimprove Template:Infobox UK place Loughgall (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; Template:Irish derived place name)[1][2] is a small village, townland (of 131 acres) and civil parish in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is in the historic baronies of Armagh and Oneilland West.[3] It had a population of 282 people (in 116 households) as of the 2011 census.[4] Loughgall was named after a small nearby loch. The village is surrounded by orchards.
History
In the Middle Ages the chiefs of the Uí Nialláin, a Gaelic clan, resided at Loughgall crannog, a fortified lake dwelling.[5] By the 16th century the O'Neills of Tír Eoghain had taken over the area, and the crannog became the residence of the O'Neill chief's brother or eldest son.[6]
In the early 1600s, the area was settled by English and Scottish Protestants as part of the Ulster Plantation. During the 1641 Irish Rebellion, settlers were held at a prison camp at Loughgall by Catholic rebels led by Manus O'Cane.[7]
In 1795, rival sectarian gangs, the Catholic Defenders and Protestant Peep-o'-Day Boys fought a bloody skirmish near the village, called the Battle of the Diamond, that left around 30 people dead. Following this, the Protestant Orange Order was founded in Dan Winter's House nearby.
The Troubles
Template:Main article The Loughgall area experienced a number of fatal incidents during The Troubles, the best known of which is arguably the 1987 Loughgall ambush.[8]
Sport
It is home to Loughgall Football Club, which plays in the NIFL Premiership, the top tier of football in Northern Ireland.
Education
The Cope Primary School serves the area.Template:Fact A Roman Catholic primary school was also previously located on the Eagralougher Road, just outside Loughgall, but this closed in 1996.Template:Fact
People
- Poet W. R. Rodgers (1909 – 1969). He later gave up the ministry and became a BBC radio producer and scriptwriter. He died in California in 1969 and was buried in Loughgall.[9]
- Cope family; MPs Robert Cope and Robert Camden Cope; and Anthony Cope (Dean of Armagh)
Civil parish of Loughgall
The civil parish of Loughgall, which spans the villages of Annaghmore, Charlemont and Loughgall, also contains the following townlands:[3]
- Aghinlig
- Altaturk
- Annaghmacmanus
- Annaghmore
- Annasamry
- Ardress East, Ardress West
- Ballygasey
- Ballymagerny
- Ballytyrone
- Borough of Charlemont
- Causanagh
- Clonmain
- Cloven Eden
- Coragh
- Corr and Dunavally
- Derrycoose
- Derrycrew
- Drumart
- Drumharriff
- Drumilly
- Drumnasoo
- Dunavally and Corr
- Eagralougher
- Fernagreevagh
- Keenaghan
- Kinnegoe
- Kishaboy
- Legavilly
- Levalleglish
- Lislasly
- Lisneany
- Lissheffield
- Loughgall
- Mullaghbane
- Mullaghmore
- Mullanasilla
- Rathdrumgran
- Tirmacrannon
- Turcarra
See also
- Market houses in Northern Ireland
- List of civil parishes of County Armagh
- List of townlands in County Armagh
References
External links
- Discover Northern Ireland - Loughgall Country Park (archived 2006)
- NI Horticulture & Plant Breeding Station (archived 2006)
- Culture Northern Ireland - Loughall (archived 2006)
- Loughgall Market House (archived 2006)
- Loughgall Presbyterian Church
- ↑ Placenames NI Template:Webarchive
- ↑ Placenames Database of Ireland
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- ↑ Ireland's History in Maps - Uí Nialláin
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- ↑ Mac Cuarta, Brian. Ulster 1641: Aspects of the Rising. Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1993. p.126
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