Craigavon Historical Society
Preserving Community History
Cross section through a local
Cruck Truss dwelling
, the logo of Craigavon Historical Society
Sir Robert Hart
Craigavon Historical Society cooperated with the children of Hart Memorial School in Portadown to produce a film about Sir Robert Hart. Click on link to view the video.
A recording of our January 2024 Zoom talk
‘The World Administered by Irishmen: Sir Robert Hart and Contemporary Irish in Asia’
given by historian
Robin Masefield
can be viewed by clicking on
this link
Lurgan Stories:
Digging deeper into Kilmocholmóg
Click to view video of 2022 dig
Watch as evidence of an early medieval site is revealed during a community archaeological excavation of a site known as Kilmocholmóg (meaning ‘Church of my little Colman’), off Kilmore Road, Lurgan.
Click here
to read
Results of Archaeological Excavation
carried out in June and July 2023 at Kilmocholmóg.
We are a cross-community group formed in 1967 with the objective of preserving community history as land between Lurgan and Portadown was being cleared to develop the "New City" of Craigavon.
Our interests cover the former borough of Craigavon including the towns of Portadown and Lurgan and the villages and rural areas surrounding them, each with their own rich history.
Our logo shows a section through a
cruck truss
dwelling typical of houses once common in this area.
Click here
to view the interior of Cruck House at the Ulster Folk Museum, Cultra.
Research and publications
We encourage research into local history and are proud of our biennial journal,
Review
which includes articles by members and friends. We have also published a number of booklets including historical town trails of Lurgan and Portadown.
Outings
We organise outings not only to local sites of historical interest but also further afield helping set our local history in the context of developments throughout Ireland.
Ballance House
Photographs from Craigavon Historical Society outings
REVIEW
- journal of Craigavon Historical Society.
Some of the covers of Review published during the last 35 years.
Review Vol. 11 No. 1, launched in April 2019, has 64 pages containing many articles on the history of Lurgan, Portadown and the surrounding areas including illustrations in full colour. Please note that the contents of recent Reviews (those published in the last 10 years) may not appear on the web site for some years after date of publication.
Review Vol. 11 No 1
Reviews can be purchased from
JTR Jewellers
, Castle Lane, Lurgan at £6 each. They may also be purchased by
mail order
for a small additional charge to cover postage costs.
To order Review(s) by post please email us at
admin@craigavonhistoricalsociety.org.uk
for further informatiom. Price, including postage, is £8.00 to UK, £9.00 to Éire and £12.00 to USA and Canada.