Christian Heritage /
Magheralin Old Church
facilitated travel through Armagh to the north and the
Magheralin, Craigavon, Co. Armagh
south of the country. It was also used by St Patrick.
Though some of the townlands of this parish are in the
Various stretches of this trail have also been identified
Barony of Oneiland County Armagh, the majority are
in the neighbouring townland of Derrylileagh as
in County Down in the Barony of Iveagh. The origins
well as a number of others in the locality. It was
of Magheralin itself are quite obscure, although down
constructed from oak planks arranged side by side
through the centuries since 800AD, regular mention
overlaid with paving stones and thought to have linked
of it has been made. The church itself has been
the Monastery of St Peter and St Paul in Armagh with
identified with ‘Lann Ronan’ of the ‘Church of Lan’ and
an outlying monastery at Maghery.
is mentioned in the Taxation of Pope Nicholas of 1306
although today there are no traces of this medieval
The Old Burial Ground
church. In 1400 a new church was built incorporating
– Oxford Island
parts of the previous church. In 1422 a stone tower
Oxford Island Nature Reserve, Lurgan, Craigavon,
was added but by 1657 the church was described as
Co. Armagh
being in ruins, however it was soon rebuilt along with
The burial ground was discovered in 1968 when the
the existing tower. The practice of burying the dead
road was being extended down to the end of the Oxford
inside the church was stopped in 1773 but damage
Island peninsula. Human bones and a cemetery
to the structure had already been done and in 1839
covering an area approximately 13 metres square
a decision was taken to build a new church on the
were found on the western side of the road.
other side of the road and in October 1844 the current
construction was completed although repaired and
expanded upon since.
Shankill Graveyard
Shankill Street, Lurgan, Craigavon, Co. Armagh
Maghery & St Patrick’s Trail
The graveyard is linked to the original church which
fell into disrepair and ruin at Oxford Island and the
Maghery, Craigavon, Co. Armagh
present Church of Ireland Church which occupies a
Maghery is a village situated in a townland of the
central position in the town of Lurgan. The burial
same name on the southwest shore of Lough Neagh
ground itself was the site of the old parish church,
in the parish of Tartaraghan. It lies between the
sited on a mound in the centre of the graveyard. It is
estuaries of the Blackwater and Bann rivers which are
now occupied by the Brownlow Memorial. Erected in
only 2 ½ miles apart giving rise to Maghery’s strategic
1737 as the memorial vault of the Brownlow family
significance as it overlooks both rivers where they
who founded the town of Lurgan, when the land was
enter Lough Neagh and where County Tyrone meets
granted to them by James I during the Plantation of
Armagh. In the Maghery area there is a tradition
Ulster in the early 17th Century. When the church
of an ancient road between Armagh and Coney
was deemed too small and enlargement restricted
Island, known as St. Patrick’s Trail, which in the past
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