Craigavon
Craigavon is a town in north County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was a planned settlement, begun in 1965, and named after the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland: James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mourneview Park and Lurgan railway station.
Mourneview Park
Stadium
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Mourneview Park is a football stadium in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and is the home ground of NIFL Premiership club Glenavon. The stadium holds 4,160 and was originally built in 1895. Mourneview Park is situated 2 miles east of Craigavon.
Lurgan railway station
Railway station
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Lurgan railway station serves the town of Lurgan in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Located on William Street, the station is owned by Translink. With 734,383 passengers boarding or alighting at the station in the year 2024/25 financial year, Lurgan is the 11th-busiest station in Northern Ireland. Lurgan railway station is situated 2½ miles northeast of Craigavon.
Lurgan College
School
Lurgan College is a selective, non-denominational, co-educational 14-19 Grammar School, situated in the town of Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Lurgan College is situated 2½ miles northeast of Craigavon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lurgan and Portadown.
Lurgan
Photo: Notafly, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lurgan is a town historically in County Armagh in Northern Ireland - those counties are no longer units of government so it's now part of Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District.
Portadown
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Portadown is an industrial town historically in County Armagh in Northern Ireland, but since 2015 part of the Armagh-Banbridge-Craigavon District. Its population in 2021 was 33,000.
Craigavon
- Type: Town with 57,700 residents
- Description: town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.4507° or 54° 27′ 3″ northLongitude
-6.3922° or 6° 23′ 32″ westPopulation
57,700Elevation
112 feet (34 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CRGOpen location code
9C6MFJ25+74OpenStreetMap ID
node 267763084OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Craigavon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Craigavon”
- Basque: “Craigavon”
- Bulgarian: “Крейгейвън”
- Catalan: “Craigavon”
- Cebuano: “Craigavon (kapital sa distrito sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Craigavon”
- Chinese: “克雷加文”
- Dutch: “Craigavon”
- French: “Craigavon”
- German: “Craigavon”
- Hebrew: “קרייגבון”
- Irish: “Craigavon”
- Irish: “Creag Abhann”
- Japanese: “クライガボン”
- Japanese: “クレイガヴォン”
- Japanese: “クレイガボン”
- Japanese: “クレイグアヴォン”
- Korean: “크레이개번”
- Malay: “Craigavon”
- Northern Frisian: “Craigavon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Craigavon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Craigavon”
- Norwegian: “Craigavon”
- Persian: “کریگ آوون”
- Persian: “کریگ اوون”
- Persian: “کریگآوون”
- Polish: “Craigavon”
- Romanian: “Districtul Craigavon”
- Russian: “Крейгавон”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Creag Abhann”
- Serbian: “Craigavon”
- Serbian: “Krejgavon”
- Serbian: “Крејгавон”
- South Azerbaijani: “کریقآوون”
- Spanish: “Craigavon”
- Swedish: “Craigavon”
- Swedish: “Creag Abhann”
- Urdu: “کریگایون”
- Welsh: “Craigavon”
- Welsh: “Creag Abhann”
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