Lurgan (from the Irish: an Lorgain meaning "the long ridge") is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town is near the southern shore of Lough Neagh and in the north-eastern corner of the county. Now part of the Craigavon Borough Council area, Lurgan is about 18 miles (29 km) south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Dublin–Belfast railway line. It had a population of about 23,000 at the 2001 Census. Take a look at our history section for a timeline of major events.

The Lurgan Ancestry Project is dedicated to all those sons and daughters of Lurgan and surrounding areas down through the ages. It is hoped that the information found in our pages will help you discover your Lurgan roots. Over time we hope to put together the story of Lurgan, through newspaper articles, census, birth, marriage and other records, photographs and Lurgan family histories.

All of the information on this website is free for you to use, but at no time may it be used on websites that charge for information or sold for profit. If you would like to make a donation to the Lurgan Ancestry Project you can do so below.

Can You Help?

This website is very much a ‘work-in-progress’ and we are updating the website with new records, photos, maps and information on a daily basis, we hope you will come back regularly to see the new content. Contributors to the website are all volunteers and give their time freely and unconditionally. You can read more about them on our About Us page. If you would like to join the project in any capacity large or small, or have documents or photos you would like to share, please contact us initially via the Contact link below.


The information on this website is free and will always be so. However, there are many documents and records that we would like to show here that are only available for sale. If you would like to make a donation to the Lurgan Ancestry project, however small (or large!), to enable us to acquire these records, it would be very much appreciated. The Lurgan Ancestry Project is a not for profit website, all monies raised from the site go back into it.

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