As well as a pleasant place to walk, Lurgan Park has much to offer the visitor, a super play park, including water feature, tennis courts, bowling green, cricket wicket and football pitches.
Mobility scooters can be borrowed free of charge pre booking is essential for those less able to access the Park. The lake offers an excellent setting for a spot of course angling or you can see the Park from a different view by hiring a rowing boat at weekends during the summer months.
The majestic Coalbrookdale Fountain takes pride of place at the top of the main avenue in the park and is always a focal point for young and old.
Made of cast iron this fountain is one of the remaining four of its type left in the world. The tranquil, picturesque surroundings of Lurgan Park offers activities for the whole family, including:.
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The beautifully landscaped parkland contains a number of well maintained paths which provide excellent walking and running ground. The demesne was bought by the Lurgan Real Property Company in the s, which cut down most of the timber from the great Avenue planted during the Jacobean war, and gave it to the residents of Lurgan. They meet on the last Wednesday of every month in the Gate Lodge and always welcome new members.
What's Nearby. Eating Out. Lurgan Town Hall. An listed building, easily identified by its traditional stonework, red railings and…. Brownlow HQ. Lough Neagh Discovery and Conference Centre. Coney Island. Lying 1km off shore from Maghery Country Park, this island is an exciting destination to…. Initially the Brownlow family settled near the lough at Annaloist, but by , on a nearby ridge, where they had established a castle and bawn for their own accommodation.
The Pynnar's survey of the town tells us that there was a very fair town consisting of 42 houses all inhabited by English families with streets paved clean through. By then there were 5 freeholders and 52 tenants holding leases for years, in all 57 families There was also two water-mills and a windmill, all for corn, and a store of arms in the manor.
There was then a good store of tillage on the property but not one Irish family upon all the land. William Brownlow must, however shortly afterwards have given way to the temptation of high rents and ready payments offered by the natives. An inquisition of shows that in that year he was brought to book by the Government in consequence of such lettings.
In he had a re-grant of the two manors by which they became united as the Manor of Brownslow's Derry. This shows that by then the town had become a place of importance in the social life of the area and gives Lurgan's markets and fairs an ancestory of over three hundred and fifty years.
During the Irish Rebellion of , Brownlow's castle and bawn were destroyed, and he and his wife and family were taken prisoner and brought to Armagh and then to Dungannon in County Tyrone. The land was then passed to the McCanns and the O'Hanlons. In , Brownlow and his family were released by the forces of Lord Conway, and as the rebellion ended they returned to their estate in Lurgan.
Then, when my next door neighbour, a policeman, was shot dead as he opened the town-centre security gates early one morning, the tragedy of the Troubles became personal.
But our hometowns — however much we reject them in youth — somehow hold onto our hearts. Lurgan will always be the place that shaped me, even though I abandoned it and moved across the water. My adult self is learning to appreciate its grit and bounce-back. Visitors too, are learning to look beyond the bomb-damaged centre, with its ugly and hastily re-erected shop spaces rubbing shoulders with older buildings that date back as far as the 17th century.
You can take a guided tour through his stately home, visit the small war museum in its basement and enjoy a genteel afternoon tea. Beside the castle, Lurgan Park was once part of the Brownlow estate — explaining the expanse of parkland, the long avenue of lime trees and acre lake.
Coronavirus-related restrictions are currently in place across Northern Ireland. Click here to find out the most up-to-date information. Not actually an island, the peninsula is home to a large cast of resident and overwintering waterbirds. Enjoy spectacular winter murmurations or throngs of house martins in summer.
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