Magheralin (from Irish Machaire Lainne, meaning 'plain of the church')[2] is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the main A3 road between Moira and Lurgan, beside the River Lagan. It had a population of 2,041 people in the 2021 census. The civil parish of Magheralin covers an area of County Down.[3]
Its original name was Lann Rónáin Fhinn, "church of Ronan Finn", a saint from the medieval Irish tale Buile Shuibhne (The Madness of Sweeney).[2]
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^"Parishes of Northern Ireland". Public Record Office of NI. Archived from the original on 13 October 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
Magheralin (from Irish Machaire Lainne, meaning 'plain of the church') is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is on the main...
record with a time of 7:20.46. Wiffen was born in England and moved to Magheralin, County Down, at the age of two. Possessing both Irish and British nationality...
Legananny Mountain, just opposite Slieve Croob. The river then turns east to Magheralin into a broad plain between the plateaus of Antrim and Down. The river...
for Upper Bann. Lockhart is a governor at Lurgan Junior High School and Magheralin Primary School. Despite previously stating during a 2017 interview that...
Wiltshire. Cycle of the Kings, a wider grouping of contemporary narratives Magheralin, a present-day village at the site of the church of Ronan Finn Woodwose...
local elections, and contained the wards of Bleary, Church, Knocknashane, Magheralin, Mourneview, Parklake and Waringstown. It was abolished for the 1985 local...
surplus store in Lurgan shot dead by the Provisional IRA at his home in Magheralin, County Down, in October 1989, was a member of Ulster Resistance. Author...
Drumaness Drumbeg Dundrum Gilford Greyabbey Helen's Bay Kilcoo Kircubbin Magheralin Millisle Moneyreagh Portavogie Rathfriland (Population of less than 1...
Down. 5 January: The UVF shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home in Magheralin. 24 February: The UVF shot dead a Catholic civilian at his home in Bawnmore...
large village in County Down, Northern Ireland, lying between Lurgan and Magheralin. It is within the Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon district. In the 2011...
June 1920) was an Irish-born Canadian naturalist. Macoun was born in Magheralin, County Down, Ireland in 1831, the third child of James Macoun and Anne...