Places to see in ( Lurgan - UK )
Places to see in ( Lurgan - UK )
Lurgan 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. Lurgan is about 18 miles (29 km) south-west of Belfast and is linked to the city by both the M1 motorway and the Belfast–Dublin railway line. It had a population of about 23,000 at the 2001 Census. It is within the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon district.
Lurgan is characteristic of many Plantation of Ulster settlements, with its straight, wide planned streets and rows of cottages. It is the site of a number of historic listed buildings including Brownlow House and the former town hall.
Historically the town was known as a major centre for the production of textiles (mainly linen) after the industrial revolution and it continued to be a major producer of textiles until that industry steadily declined in the 1990s and 2000s. The development of the 'new city' of Craigavon had a major impact on Lurgan in the 1960s when much industry was attracted to the area. The expansion of Craigavon's Rushmere Retail Park in the 2000s has affected the town's retail trade further.
Lurgan sits in a relatively flat part of Ireland by the south east shore of Lough Neagh. The two main formations in north Armagh are an area of estuarine clays by the shore of the lough, and a mass of basalt farther back. The earliest human settlements in the area were to the northwest of the present day town near the shore of the lough. When the land was handed to the Brownlow family, they initially settled near the lough at Annaloist, but later settled where the town was eventually built. The oldest part of the town, the main street, is built on a long ridge in the townland (baile fearainn) of Lurgan. A neighbouring hill is the site of Brownlow House, which overlooks Lurgan Park.
Lurgan has historically been an industrial town in which the linen industry predominated as a source of employment during the Industrial Revolution, and is said to have employed as many as 18,000 handloom weavers at the end of the 19th century, a figure significantly higher than the town's resident population at the time.
Lurgan town centre is distinctive for its wide main street, Market Street, one of the widest in Ireland, which is dominated at one end by Shankill Church in Church Place. A grey granite hexagonal temple-shaped war memorial sits at the entrance to Church Place, topped by a bronze-winged statue representing the spirit of Victorious Peace. A marble pillar at the centre displays the names of over 400 men from the town who lost their lives in the First World War.
At the junction of Market Street and Union Street is the former Lurgan Town Hall, a listed building erected in 1868. It was the first site of the town's library in 1891, was temporarily used as a police station in 1972 when it was handed to the Police Authority, and is today owned by the Mechanics' Institute and is available for conferences and community functions.
Lurgan railway station opened by the Ulster Railway on 18 November 1841, connecting the town to Belfast Great Victoria Street in the east and Portadown and Armagh in the west. The Great Northern Railway of Ireland provided further access to the west of Ulster which was then closed in the 1950s and 1960s from Portadown railway station. Presently Lurgan railway station is run by Northern Ireland Railways with direct trains to Belfast Great Victoria Street and as part of the Dublin-Belfast railway line. The Enterprise runs through Lurgan from Dublin Connolly to Belfast Central, and a change of train may be required at Portadown to travel to Newry or Dublin Connolly.
( Lurgan - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Lurgan . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Lurgan - UK
Join us for more :
10 Amazing Places in Northern Ireland
Check out our 10 amazing places to visit in Northern Ireland. This stunning aerial footage captures the most iconic locations around Northern Ireland including the Dark Hedges, Dunluce Castle, the Mourne Mountains and the Giant’s Causeway.
See more at:
Places to see in ( Craigavon - UK )
Places to see in ( Craigavon - UK )
Craigavon is a planned settlement in northern County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Its construction began in 1965 and it was named after Northern Ireland's first Prime Minister: James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon. It was intended to be the heart of a new linear city incorporating Lurgan and Portadown, but this plan was abandoned and less than half of the proposed work was done.[3] Among locals today, Craigavon refers to the area between the two towns. It is built beside two artificial lakes and is made up of a large residential area (Brownlow), a second smaller one (Mandeville), plus a central area (Highfield) that includes a substantial shopping centre, a courthouse and the district council headquarters.
The lakes, a wildlife haven, are surrounded by woodland with walking trails. There is also a watersports centre, petting zoo, golf course and ski slope in the area. In most of Craigavon, motor vehicles are completely separated from pedestrians, and roundabouts are used extensively. Craigavon sometimes refers to the much larger Craigavon Urban Area, which includes Craigavon, Lurgan, Portadown, Waringstown and Bleary.
Craigavon was planned as a 'new city' for Northern Ireland that would mirror cities such as Cumbernauld and, later, Milton Keynes in Great Britain. It was conceived as a linear city that would link the towns of Lurgan and Portadown to create a single urban area and identity.
The design of Craigavon was based on Modernism and imbued with the spirit of the age. The planners separated motor vehicles from pedestrians and cyclists wherever possible, creating a network of paths allowing residents to travel across Craigavon without encountering traffic.
Craigavon was designed to be a very child-friendly environment with small playgrounds dotted throughout the residential areas. There was an emphasis on providing green space in the housing estates and safe paths to cycle on. The new town was also provided with many civic amenities including a leisure centre, library, shopping centre, civic centre, a large park with artificial lakes, playing fields, a petting zoo, public gardens and an artificial ski slope.
Craigavon lies on an area of flat land near the southeastern shore of Lough Neagh. The surrounding settlements (listed clockwise) are Aghacommon (north), Lurgan (northeast), Corcreeny (east), Bleary (southeast) and Portadown (southwest). It is separated from these surrounding settlements mostly by fields. The narrow gap between Craigavon and Portadown is marked by the fields/playing fields in Lisnisky and Kernan. The gap between Craigavon and Lurgan is narrower, being marked by fields/playing fields in Ballynamony, Tullygally, Taghnevan and Monbrief.
( Craigavon - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Craigavon . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Craigavon - UK
Join us for more :
Places to see in ( Banbridge - UK )
Places to see in ( Banbridge - UK )
Banbridge is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the River Bann and the A1 road and is named after a bridge built over the River Bann in 1712. Banbridge is situated in the civil parish of Seapatrick and the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Upper Half.
The town began as a coaching stop on the road from Belfast to Dublin and thrived from Irish linen manufacturing. The town is the headquarters for Banbridge District Council. The town's main street is very unusual, and rises to a steep hill before levelling out. In 1834 an underpass was built as horses with heavy loads would faint before reaching the top of the hill. It was built by William Dargan and is officially named 'Downshire Bridge', though it is often called The Cut.
Banbridge, home to the Star of the County Down, is a relatively young town, first entering recorded history around 1691 during the aftermath of the struggle between William III and James II. An Outlawry Court was set up in the town to deal with the followers of James. Banbridge has staged an annual busking competition and music festival called Buskfest since 2004. Performers often travel long distances to participate. The competition closes with an evening concert composed of performances by world-famous artists. Recently, Banbridge has been twinned with Ruelle in France.
Like the rest of Ireland, the Banbridge area has long been divided into townlands, whose names mostly come from the Irish language. Banbridge sprang up in a townland called Ballyvally. Over time, the surrounding townlands have been built upon and they have lent their names to many streets, roads and housing estates. The following is a list of townlands within Banbridge's urban area.
Near the town lie the ancient Lisnagade Fort, Legannany Dolmen, and the Loughbrickland Crannóg, constructed around the year 500 AD. Thomas Ferguson & Co Ltd factory tours. The town is situated a short distance from the Brontë Homeland in Rathfriland- the church at which Patrick Brontë preached often hosts musical performances by well-known artists, e.g. Eddi Reader.
Banbridge is on the A1 main road between Belfast and Newry. The nearest railway station is Scarva on Northern Ireland Railways' Belfast–Newry railway line, about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Banbridge. Banbridge had its own railway station from 1859 until 1956. The Banbridge, Newry, Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway opened Banbridge (BJR) railway station on 23 March 1859.
( Banbridge - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Banbridge . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Banbridge - UK
Join us for more :
DERRY/ LONDONDERRY Town Centre Video
Please watch: BWTM LIVE | BWTM SPORTS | BWTM GAMING THE TRINITY
-~-~~-~~~-~~-~-
Short video looking around DERRY,
LONDONDERRY Northern Ireland
APOLOGIES FOR THE TITLE !!!!
Ireland’s Cross-Border Express: Enterprise, FIRST PLUS: Dublin to Belfast
WATCH: AZUMA: Britain’s NEW high speed train:
Special thanks to my incredible $5+ Patrons:
Henry Bollington
Abby Fitzpatrick
Neil Smith
Amber Watts
Sean Gorelik
Quintin Soloviev
Robert Livingston
Vista Aviation
Ally Mullins
Rami A
Yasseen
Austin Matemba
Liam Doyle
Rachel Partridge
Bailey Courtney
Anonymous Donor (x2)
Join them on PATREON and support me:
Follow me on Snapchat: pauls_trips ¦
Follow me on Twitter: @pauls_trips ¦
Follow me on Instagram: paulstripreports ¦
More about the Enterprise:
The full menu:
Thanks for finding my video and pressing play!
In this video I take one of Europe’s forgotten trains - the Enterprise. This is the service connecting the two Irish capitals, Dublin in the Republic with Belfast in Northern Ireland. The journey takes around 2 hours and 15 minutes on the fastest weekday services.
This is an international train, as Northern Ireland is part of the UK. The open and invisible border between the two means our journey is seamless and easy, with no passport or customs checks needed.
First Plus - now seemingly also branded Enterprise Plus - is very comfortable indeed and is well patronised. In fact, on this trip there were a number of senior MLAs (members of Northern Ireland’s devolved Parliament) on board, though they aren’t pictured! One of the reasons this train feels roomy and comfortable is the fact that Irish trains run on a broader gauge - rails are five feet apart as opposed to European gauge used in Britain of four feet eight and a half inches.
Autumn and winter aren’t the best for filming - lots of reflections and it being dark outside made for a fair amount of unusable footage....argh.
For those of you who like to keep track of this sort of thing, yep - I took this journey immediately after my Newquay to Dublin flight with Aer Lingus!
Enjoy the report.
_____________________________________
Do you have any ideas for future trip reports? Something you've never seen on YouTube before? Why not suggest it to me in the comments? I read every single one!
Stopover in London with kids | London in Winter | family travel video clip
London, United Kingdom: London Underground, Big Ben, Westminster, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, London City Hall, Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, Victoria & Albert Museum, Harrods, Camden Town, Green Park, Buckingham Palace, Regency Cafe, Poppies Fish&Chips | January, 2019 | Cinematic family travel video blog
Gear:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7
Panasonic Lumix G 12-60 mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. POWER O.I.S.
Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 15 mm f/1.7 ASPH
Music:
Roads by LiQWYD
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Music promoted by Audio Library
Belfast Peace Wall, Northern Ireland | 360 Degree Video
Belfast peace wall carries a history behind it and this history calls out for the travellers to come closer and dig deep to know more about the reason behind building it and dig deeper to know more stories related to this era. 4K 360 Video - change the wrench settings in bottom right of video for the 4k video experience - amazing -best 4k 360 we can do :-) Enjoy!!
Peace walls - or peace lines, as it is also referred to - are a series of separation barriers that separate predominantly Republican and Nationalist Catholic neighborhoods from predominantly Loyalist and Unionist Protestant neighborhoods. The reason behind the creation of these walls go back to minimizing the inter-communal violence between Catholics (most of those are nationalists who self identify as Irish) and Protestants (most of whom are unionists who self identify as British). (
Belfast Peace Walls are long, they range between few hundred yards to over three miles, and they are made of iron, brick and steel. This will differ according to the location you are standing at because these long walls are not only found in one place; the majority might be found in Belfast, but there are also those in Derry, Portadown and Lurgan. Some of these walls have gates in them that only allow the passage during daylight in order to avoid any problems that could occur - sometimes these gates are even stuffed with police.
These walls were actually temporary when they were first built back in 1969, following the outbreak of the 1969 Northern Ireland riots and The Troubles, but they only kept increasing in length and they were never removed until this very day, they are even now used by artists as walls on which they perform their drawings to make them all look more cheerful. In the early 1990's, these walls which were supposed to stay for 6 months only, were only 18 but they kept increasing in number and in size, they kept getting wider, longer and more permanent, until they almost reached 59 walls in 2017.
For the good history that these peace walls carry, they have even become touristic attractions for tourists coming to visit Belfast - since most of them are located in Belfast - in order for them to hear about their historical story and at the same time get the chance to see those art drawings which are now filling most of these walls. (
A lot of people still think that these walls or lines are going to be removed in the near future, but actually the discussion began in 2008 and in 2011 the study that was released pointed out that 69% of the residents still believe that these walls are actually important, and since then there were no plans for these walls to be removed and they are still placed until today.
We have had our tours to the Belfast peace walls before - we even got there to sign our names on one of them ( - and we should say that it is actually interesting to visit such a place and know more about the history it carries while at the same time checking the art drawings that are found there on the wall and which might be one of the main reasons why lots of tourists decide to visit it before they decide to leave Belfast, Northern Ireland.
These walls that reach six metres tall and which separate two sides from one another have those drawings on the walls which are harmonic but which are delivering messages of oppression or revenge at the same time.
Since Belfast is known to be the most famous when it comes to the peace walls, we should also shed the lights on the most famous streets where these walls are located. The most famous of these walls are the ones that divide between Falls and Shankill Roads in the western part of Belfast. On the Shankill Road side, Union Jack flags hang from houses and poles on the street and this is the side where the British flags are found everywhere.
The main reason behind what is known as The Troubles goes back to the fact that people didn't know back then whether to consider this part as a small part of the Republic of Ireland or else is part of the United Kingdom, and that is exactly the reason why at one side you will find the British flags and on the other you might find some Irish ones.
Nobody knows the future of peace walls and whether Irish people are against their existence or else with, but they will have to accept them and thus will only need to change them to something with a message, and that's exactly what art helps with.
We have been to Belfast peace walls several times and since we consider it now one of the touristic places that help people know more about the history of Belfast, we now deliver these videos as something that people will need in order to experience and to know what they are going to see if they eventually decided to go there once they are in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
If you have been there before, let us know about your experience!
186 passes dunmurry bound for belfast
186 returns to belfast with the last santa run from lisburn for this year after this year 186 made one more run to carrick and return to end this years santa steam train season after the portrush flyer nightmere 186 showed its a great loco by running smooth all season i hope you enjoyed all my clips from this seasons santa steam
Ballygally Castle Hotel with its Haunted Rooms - NI
This haunted hotel is possibly one of the most haunted places in the world or at least in UK and it has a very scary story - this part of the hotel is closed to guests staying - but you can visit the tower where the ghost room is and see how the story unfolded. The haunted building has not been touched in the recent upgrades of the hotel - leaving the ghost room as it was.
The haunted hotel is an attraction for ghost hunters and guests have told of ghost screams. The hotel itself is in a beautiful sea side location and it is a fabulous hotel - thankfully the haunted room is slightly separated from the rest of the hotel. You have to go up a round tower to the top and into the tiny rooms and you get a feeling for what it was like to be locked in there. If tempted - do check out this Haunted Hotel in the UK (Ballygally just outside Belfast - Northern Ireland).
For those who might not be well aware of Ballygally Hotel - of the Haunted Hotel as it might be referred to - it is an old castle that has been turned to a hotel and is located in the village of Ballygally in county Antrim, Northern Ireland, and even though it is more known as a hotel, people still visit it - or the tower - in order to check those haunted rooms which are found there and which are separated from the hotel itself.
There are different things that make this castle a different experience - that's of course apart from experiencing the feeling of the ghosts :-) - such as its location; Ballygally Castle overlooks the sea on the Ballygally Bay. The castle is strongly Scots influenced in style featuring corbelled cylindrical tourelles with conical roofs on top. The castle was built with high walls, steep roof, dormer windows and corner turrets; the walls are five feet thick with loopholes for muskets and a water stream used to ran through the outer hall to provide water in the case of siege.
This is one of the different and rare experiences that we have been through while visiting a castle or a hotel, but actually a lot of people agree on the fact that it is one place which they love to visit for the idea of being referred to as haunted and for the fact that the visit paid for it is actually different - not just an old thing to watch and go through.
Since it is now used as a hotel, the Ballygally Castle is one of the oldest 17th century buildings in Northern Ireland that is still used until these days as a residence and is also believed to be one of the best haunted places in Ulster.
The Haunted Castle; a lot of people are asking why it has been given that name. Being considered a haunted place goes back to the ghosts which are believed to be living in the place with the most active of them all is known as Lady Isobel Shaw who used to knock on the doors of the rooms and disappear - yes, it would be scary to be staying at a room like that - this lady was reported to die after throwing herself from the window when her husband locked her in the room and left her starving. Another famous ghost in this castle is called Madame Nixon who used to live in the castle in the 19th century and who could be heard walking around the place in her silk dress.
The question we keep asking ourselves is is it possible that people could think about booking a room in this hotel or castle if they know that it is known as the haunted hotel and is believed to have ghosts living in it? and we never knew whether the answer would end up being a yes or else will be a no.
There are different stories reported about this hotel which are related to guests seeing ghosts or feeling them and running to the lobby in fright and those which are related to finding rooms in a mess after getting them prepared for guests. The most important thing to mention and the one thing we consider the most important is the small room in the corner turret of the castle which is known as the Ghost Room and which is closed and not part of the hotel.
It is interesting to get to this castle - or hotel - and reach the room through this tower to see those pictures and stories written on the wall about the history of the place when it comes to those stories related to the ghosts, but we didn't try to sleep in the hotel to tell you about any other kind of experience there!
There are other different trips we have made to Ballygally before which will be considered close to the Ballygally Hotel - the Haunted Hotel - which include the Ballygally and Ballintoy trip ( We have also visited this hotel before to check one of the doors that appeared in the Game of Thrones movie ( and we also enjoyed the Ballygally Beach which is near the castle (
Are you up to such an experience with some ghosts in it?
Some of the best locations around Ireland / Northern Ireland and further afield. A travel blog/vlog of the hidden treasures that are on our doorstep.