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class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Climate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Climate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Demography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Demography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Demography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Demography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Governance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Governance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Governance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Governance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religious_sites" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religious_sites"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Religious sites</span> </div> </a> <button 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href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86" title="پورتاداون – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پورتاداون" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portadown" title="Portadown – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Portadown" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_an_D%C3%BAn%C3%A1in" title="Port an Dúnáin – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Port an Dúnáin" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a 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dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Northern_Ireland" title="List of places in Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_County_Armagh" title="List of places in County Armagh">Armagh</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Portadown&params=54.421027_N_6.458244_W_region:GB_type:city(32926)"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">54°25′16″N</span> <span class="longitude">6°27′30″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">54.421027°N 6.458244°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">54.421027; -6.458244</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Portadown</b> (from <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a> <i> Port an Dúnáin</i> '<a href="/wiki/Inland_port" title="Inland port">landing place</a> of the little fort' <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">pronounced</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="ga-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Irish" title="Help:IPA/Irish">[pɔɾˠt̪ˠ<span class="wrap"> </span>ə<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈd̪ˠuːnˠaːnʲ]</a></span>)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a town in <a href="/wiki/County_Armagh" title="County Armagh">County Armagh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a>. The town sits on the <a href="/wiki/River_Bann" title="River Bann">River Bann</a> in the north of the county, about 24 miles (39 km)<sup id="cite_ref-fmt_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fmt-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> southwest of <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a>. It is in the <a href="/wiki/Armagh_City,_Banbridge_and_Craigavon_Borough_Council" title="Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council">Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council</a> area and had a population of about 32,000 at the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2021">2021 Census</a>. For some purposes, Portadown is treated as part of the "Craigavon Urban Area", alongside <a href="/wiki/Craigavon_(planned_town)" class="mw-redirect" title="Craigavon (planned town)">Craigavon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lurgan" title="Lurgan">Lurgan</a>. </p><p>Although Portadown can trace its origins to the early 17th century <a href="/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster" title="Plantation of Ulster">Plantation of Ulster</a>, it was not until the <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian era</a> and the arrival of the railway that it became a major town. It earned the nickname "hub of the North" due to it being a major railway junction; where the <a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(Ireland)" title="Great Northern Railway (Ireland)">Great Northern Railway's</a> line diverged for Belfast, <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armagh" title="Armagh">Armagh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Derry" title="Derry">Derry</a>. In the 19th and 20th centuries Portadown was also a major centre for the production of textiles (mainly <a href="/wiki/Irish_linen" title="Irish linen">linen</a>). </p><p>Portadown is the site of the long-running <a href="/wiki/Drumcree_conflict" title="Drumcree conflict">Drumcree dispute</a>, over yearly marches by the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Protestants" title="Ulster Protestants">Protestant</a> <a href="/wiki/Orange_Order" title="Orange Order">Orange Order</a> through the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholics" title="Irish Catholics">Catholic</a> part of the town, which often sparked violence and protests. In the 1990s, the dispute escalated and prompted a massive security operation, drawing worldwide attention to Portadown.<sup id="cite_ref-drumcree_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-drumcree-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Market_Day,_Portadown_(5969567125).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Market_Day%2C_Portadown_%285969567125%29.jpg/220px-Market_Day%2C_Portadown_%285969567125%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Market_Day%2C_Portadown_%285969567125%29.jpg/330px-Market_Day%2C_Portadown_%285969567125%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Market_Day%2C_Portadown_%285969567125%29.jpg/440px-Market_Day%2C_Portadown_%285969567125%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="827" data-file-height="579" /></a><figcaption>Portadown High Street on market day (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1900</span>)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bridge_Street_showing_First_Presbyterian_Church,_Portadown,_Co._Armagh_(16740202726).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Bridge_Street_showing_First_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Portadown%2C_Co._Armagh_%2816740202726%29.jpg/220px-Bridge_Street_showing_First_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Portadown%2C_Co._Armagh_%2816740202726%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Bridge_Street_showing_First_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Portadown%2C_Co._Armagh_%2816740202726%29.jpg/330px-Bridge_Street_showing_First_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Portadown%2C_Co._Armagh_%2816740202726%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Bridge_Street_showing_First_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Portadown%2C_Co._Armagh_%2816740202726%29.jpg/440px-Bridge_Street_showing_First_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Portadown%2C_Co._Armagh_%2816740202726%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1416" /></a><figcaption>The Edenderry area of Portadown in the early 1900s</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:High_Street,_Portadown_(31578636306).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/High_Street%2C_Portadown_%2831578636306%29.jpg/220px-High_Street%2C_Portadown_%2831578636306%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/High_Street%2C_Portadown_%2831578636306%29.jpg/330px-High_Street%2C_Portadown_%2831578636306%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/High_Street%2C_Portadown_%2831578636306%29.jpg/440px-High_Street%2C_Portadown_%2831578636306%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1521" /></a><figcaption>High Street in the early 1900s</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history_and_Plantation_of_Ulster">Early history and Plantation of Ulster</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early history and Plantation of Ulster"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Portadown area had long been populated by <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_Ireland" title="Gaelic Ireland">Irish Gaels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the beginning of the 1600s, it lay within the district of <a href="/wiki/Oneilland_West" title="Oneilland West">Clancann</a> (<i>Clann Chana</i>), which was part of the larger territory of <a href="/wiki/Oneilland" title="Oneilland">Oneilland</a> (<i>Uí Nialláin</i>). This district was named after the dominant local <a href="/wiki/Clan" title="Clan">clan</a>—the <a href="/wiki/McCann_(surname)" title="McCann (surname)">McCanns</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Mac_Cana" title="Mac Cana">Mac Cana</a></i>)<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-O'CleryO'Clery1856_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'CleryO'Clery1856-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—who had been in the area since before the 13th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill2004_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill2004-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-O'Daly1852_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Daly1852-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The McCanns were then a <a href="/wiki/Vassal" title="Vassal">vassal</a> <a href="/wiki/Sept" title="Sept">sept</a> of the <a href="/wiki/U%C3%AD_N%C3%A9ill" title="Uí Néill">O'Neills</a> (<i>Uí Néill</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the eastern banks of the River Bann was the district of <a href="/wiki/Oneilland_East" title="Oneilland East">Clanbrasil</a> (<i>Clann Bhreasail</i>).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town's name comes from the Irish <i>Port a' Dúnáin</i> (or, more formally, <i>Port an Dúnáin</i>), meaning the port or landing place of the small fort. This was likely a fort of the McCanns.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1594 until 1603, the O'Neills and an alliance of other clans fought in the <a href="/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War_(Ireland)" title="Nine Years' War (Ireland)">Nine Years' War</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Tudor_conquest_of_Ireland" title="Tudor conquest of Ireland">Tudor conquest of Ireland</a>. This ended in defeat for the Irish clans, and much of their land was seized and redistributed by the <a href="/wiki/The_Crown" title="The Crown">Crown</a>. In 1608, <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">King James VI and I</a> began the <a href="/wiki/Plantation_of_Ulster" title="Plantation of Ulster">Plantation of Ulster</a> – the organised colonisation of the region by Protestant settlers from <a href="/wiki/Great_Britain" title="Great Britain">Britain</a>, known as 'planters'.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1610, as part of the Plantation, the lands of Portadown were granted to William Powell.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1611, he sold his grant of land to Reverend Richard Rolleston, who in turn sold it in two portions to Richard Cope and Michael Obins.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Obins built a large <a href="/wiki/Elizabethan_architecture" title="Elizabethan architecture">Elizabethan</a>-style mansion for himself and his family, and a number of houses nearby for English tenants. This mansion was in the area of the present-day Woodside estate,<sup id="cite_ref-thewalk_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thewalk-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and today's People's Park was part of its grounds.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The park is now bounded on either side by Obins Street and Castle Street, both of which are references to "Obin's Castle". In 1631, Obins was granted a licence for a "fair and market", which led to the building of the first bridge across the River Bann shortly thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Irish_rebellion_of_1641">Irish rebellion of 1641</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Irish rebellion of 1641"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1641" title="Irish Rebellion of 1641">Irish Rebellion of 1641</a>, Obins Castle was captured by a force of dispossessed Irish led by the McCanns, Magennises and O'Neills.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 1641, Irish rebels—likely under the command of Toole McCann—killed about 100 captured British settlers by forcing them off the Bann bridge and shooting those who swam ashore. This became known as the "<a href="/wiki/Portadown_massacre" title="Portadown massacre">Portadown massacre</a>" and was one of the worst atrocities of the rebellion. It fuelled revenge killings during the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Confederate_Wars" title="Irish Confederate Wars">conflict that followed</a> and was used to justify the <a href="/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Ireland" title="Cromwellian conquest of Ireland">Cromwellian conquest of Ireland</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Confederate_Ireland" title="Confederate Ireland">Irish Confederate</a> troops abandoned Obins Castle during the Cromwellian conquest, and Hamlet Obins (who had survived its capture) repossessed it in 1652. It was then passed to his son, Anthony Obins.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Industrialisation">Industrialisation</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Industrialisation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1741, Anthony Obins was involved with the development of the <a href="/wiki/Newry_Canal" title="Newry Canal">Newry Canal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was succeeded by Michael Obins in 1750. It was he who set up a linen market in Portadown in 1762 and this laid the foundations of Portadown's major industry.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Michael Obins died in 1798 and left a son, Michael Eyre Obins, to succeed him. In 1814, Eyre Obins took holy orders and sold the estate to the Sparrow family of <a href="/wiki/Tandragee" title="Tandragee">Tandragee</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/George_Montagu,_6th_Duke_of_Manchester" title="George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester">George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester</a> (known as Viscount Mandeville) married Millicent Sparrow in 1822 and came into possession of the estate.<sup id="cite_ref-RiseOfPortadown_7-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RiseOfPortadown-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This family's legacy to the town includes street names such as Montagu Street, Millicent Crescent and Mandeville Street, as well as buildings such as the Fergus Hall (formerly the Duke's School and Church Street PS), and the Carleton Home (the Duke's former townhouse, latterly a maternity hospital/nurses accommodation and now private apartments).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Blacker family, descended from Danes who entered Ireland in the 9th century, founded an estate at Carrick, on the Portadown–<a href="/wiki/Gilford,_County_Down" title="Gilford, County Down">Gilford</a> road. The land had been bought by Colonel <a href="/wiki/Valentine_Blacker" title="Valentine Blacker">Valentine Blacker</a> from Sir Anthony Cope of <a href="/wiki/Loughgall" title="Loughgall">Loughgall</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It became known as Carrickblacker, and is now the site of Portadown Golf Club. One of the notables in the Blacker family, Colonel <a href="/wiki/William_Blacker" title="William Blacker">William Blacker</a>, High Sheriff of Armagh, took part in the "<a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Diamond" title="Battle of the Diamond">Battle of the Diamond</a>" and was a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Order" title="Orange Order">Orange Order</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This, and subsequent events like the setting up of a 'provisional' Grand Lodge in the town after the 'voluntary' dissolution of the Order in 1825, led to the town being known as 'The Orange Citadel' and was a center of sectarian strife for two centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many of the Blacker family were soldiers or churchmen. The family estate was purchased in 1937 by Portadown Golf Club,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who demolished Carrickblacker House in 1988 to make way for a new clubhouse.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: World War II"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WarMemorialPortadown.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/WarMemorialPortadown.JPG/170px-WarMemorialPortadown.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/WarMemorialPortadown.JPG/255px-WarMemorialPortadown.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/WarMemorialPortadown.JPG/340px-WarMemorialPortadown.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2654" data-file-height="3583" /></a><figcaption>Portadown War Memorial</figcaption></figure> <p>A large <a href="/wiki/Prisoner-of-war_camp" title="Prisoner-of-war camp">prisoner-of-war (POW) camp</a> was built at Portadown during World War II. It was at the site of a former sports facility on what was then the western edge of town.<sup id="cite_ref-wartimeni_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wartimeni-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This area is now covered by housing from Fitzroy Street and the Brownstown Estates. The camp housed (mostly) <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">German</a> POWs. For a time these POWs were guarded by <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Welsh</a> servicemen who had been transferred from Germany (known as "Bluecaps") and who were billeted at St Patrick's Hall in Thomas Street.<sup id="cite_ref-wartimeni_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wartimeni-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The local newspaper carried a story of another POW camp, adjacent to Killicomaine Castle (also known as Irwin's Castle) in what was then known as "Cullen's Lane" but is now called "Princess Way" and part of the Killicomaine estate, built in 1954 and largely contemporary with other estates built by the then Portadown Borough Council and the former <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Housing_Trust" title="Northern Ireland Housing Trust">Northern Ireland Housing Trust</a> (now called the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Housing_Executive" title="Northern Ireland Housing Executive">Northern Ireland Housing Executive</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A third camp was built on the Carrickblacker estate towards the end of the war, possibly as an overflow for the nearby Elmfield Camp in Gilford, but was used as accommodation for Allied troops and no Axis pow's were ever imprisoned there.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005, a public <a href="/wiki/Air-raid_shelter" class="mw-redirect" title="Air-raid shelter">air-raid shelter</a> was uncovered during excavation works near the riverbank just outside the town centre. One of ten built by the council during World War II, it is one of only two now remaining, the other at the new roundabout on the Gilford Road, and a rare example of public air raid shelters in Northern Ireland.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Troubles">The Troubles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: The Troubles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/The_Troubles_in_Portadown" title="The Troubles in Portadown">The Troubles in Portadown</a> and <a href="/wiki/Drumcree_conflict" title="Drumcree conflict">Drumcree conflict</a></div> <p>During <a href="/wiki/The_Troubles" title="The Troubles">the Troubles</a>, there were numerous shootings, bombings and riots in Portadown. The conflict led to the deaths of 45 people in the town.<sup id="cite_ref-sutton_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sutton-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ulster_loyalism" title="Ulster loyalism">Loyalists</a> killed 25 people: eighteen Catholic civilians, three Protestant civilians, two members of the security forces, a republican paramilitary and a loyalist paramilitary.<sup id="cite_ref-sutton_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sutton-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Irish_republicanism" title="Irish republicanism">Irish republicans</a> killed 18 people: nine members of the security forces, one loyalist paramilitary, seven Protestant civilians and one Catholic civilian.<sup id="cite_ref-sutton_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sutton-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The security forces killed one Protestant civilian, and another loyalist was killed by his own bomb.<sup id="cite_ref-sutton_23-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sutton-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1993 and 1998, the town centre was devastated by two large <a href="/wiki/Car_bomb" title="Car bomb">car bombs</a> planted by republicans.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Troubles led to the town becoming segregated – the northwestern part of the town became almost wholly populated by the Catholic/<a href="/wiki/Irish_nationalism" title="Irish nationalism">Irish nationalist</a> minority, while the rest of the town became almost wholly Protestant/<a href="/wiki/Unionism_in_Ireland" title="Unionism in Ireland">unionist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Susan_McKay_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Susan_McKay-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Portadown's 'Catholic district' is bordered by the railway line and by a security barrier ("<a href="/wiki/Peace_lines" title="Peace lines">peace wall</a>") along Corcrain Road.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Troubles also intensified the long-running <a href="/wiki/Drumcree_conflict" title="Drumcree conflict">Drumcree marching dispute</a>, over Orange marches through the Catholic part of town. Each July from 1995 to 2000, the dispute drew worldwide attention as it sparked protests and violence throughout Northern Ireland, prompted a massive <a href="/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary" title="Royal Ulster Constabulary">police</a>/<a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> operation, and threatened to derail the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process" title="Northern Ireland peace process">peace process</a>. The Army sealed-off the Catholic part of Portadown with large steel, concrete and barbed-wire barricades and the situation was likened to a "war zone"<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a "siege".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Each summer, during the "<a href="/wiki/The_Twelfth" title="The Twelfth">marching season</a>", there are many Protestant/loyalist marches in the town. Loyalists put up numerous <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_flags_issue" title="Northern Ireland flags issue">flags</a><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and raise <a href="/wiki/The_Twelfth#Lead-up_to_the_Twelfth" title="The Twelfth">arches</a> over some streets. These marches, and the raising of these flags and arches near the homes of Catholic families, continues to be a source of tension and sometimes violence.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Community leaders in Portadown have been involved with the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Project" title="Ulster Project">Ulster Project</a> since it began in 1975. The project involves teenagers from both of Northern Ireland's main communities. The goal is to foster goodwill and friendship between them. Each year, a group of teenagers are chosen to travel to the United States, where they stay with an American family for a few weeks.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bann_River_at_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1093155.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Bann_River_at_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1093155.jpg/220px-Bann_River_at_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1093155.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Bann_River_at_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1093155.jpg/330px-Bann_River_at_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1093155.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Bann_River_at_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1093155.jpg/440px-Bann_River_at_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1093155.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>River Bann at Portadown</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Bann_bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1053296.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/The_Bann_bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1053296.jpg/220px-The_Bann_bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1053296.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/The_Bann_bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1053296.jpg/330px-The_Bann_bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1053296.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/The_Bann_bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1053296.jpg/440px-The_Bann_bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1053296.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The Bann Bridge</figcaption></figure> <p>Portadown sits in a relatively flat part of <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>, near the southern shore of <a href="/wiki/Lough_Neagh" title="Lough Neagh">Lough Neagh</a>. There are two small <a href="/wiki/Wetland" title="Wetland">wetland</a> areas on the outskirts of the town; one at Selshion in the west and another at Annagh in the south. The Ballybay River flows into the town from the west before joining the River Bann. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="River_Bann">River Bann</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: River Bann"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the town is built on the western side of the <a href="/wiki/River_Bann" title="River Bann">River Bann</a>, and owes much of its prosperity to the river. It was the construction of the Newry Canal (linking Carlingford Lough with Lough Neagh) in 1740, which enabled Portadown to become a hub for the water traffic between Newry and Belfast.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are three bridges across the river at Portadown. Bridge Street and Northway are both road bridges and there is a railway bridge beside the Northway. The 'Bann Bridge' on Bridge Street is the oldest. The story of this bridge is unusual in that it was built without a river running underneath it. After building was complete, the course of the River Bann was diverted by some 100 yards to straighten a <a href="/wiki/Meander" title="Meander">meander</a>. The old riverbed was then built upon. An archaeological dig in the area of the old riverbed uncovered the bones of some of those drowned in the <a href="/wiki/Portadown_Massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Portadown Massacre">1641 massacre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Townlands">Townlands</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Townlands"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like the rest of Ireland, the Portadown area has long been divided into <a href="/wiki/Townland" title="Townland">townlands</a>, whose names mostly come from the <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish language</a>. Portadown sprang up along a road (High Street/Market Street) that marked the boundary between two of these – Tavanagh and Corcrain. Over time, the surrounding townlands have been built upon and they have given their names to many roads and housing estates. The following is a list of townlands within Portadown's urban area, alongside their likely <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">etymologies</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>West bank of the River Bann (parish of Drumcree): </p> <ul><li>Annagh (from <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a> <i> Eanach</i> 'marsh')</li> <li>Ballyoran (from <i>Baile Uaráin</i> meaning "townland of the spring")</li> <li>Baltylum (from <i>Bailte Loma</i> meaning "bare townlands")</li> <li>Clounagh or Clownagh (from <i>Cluaineach </i> meaning "place of the water-meadow")</li> <li>Corcrain (from <i>Corr Chrainn</i> meaning "round hill of the tree")</li> <li>Garvaghy (from <i>Garbh Achadh</i> meaning "rough field")</li> <li>Mahon or Maghon (from <i>Maigh Ghamhan</i> meaning "plain of the calves")</li> <li>Selshion (from <i>Soilseán</i> meaning "shining place")</li> <li>Tavanagh (from <i>Tamhnach</i> meaning "grassland")</li></ul> <p>East bank of the River Bann (parish of <a href="/wiki/Seagoe" class="mw-redirect" title="Seagoe">Seagoe</a>): </p> <ul><li>Ballyhannon (from <i>Baile Uí Sheanacháin</i> meaning "<a href="/wiki/Shannon_(surname)" title="Shannon (surname)">O'Shannon's</a> townland")</li> <li>Bocombra (formerly <i>Bocomra</i>, from <i>Bac Iomarach</i> meaning "ridged bank")</li> <li>Edenderry (from <i>Éadan Doire</i> meaning "hill-brow of the oak grove")</li> <li>Kernan (formerly <i>Kerhanan</i>, from <i>Caorthannán</i> meaning "place of <a href="/wiki/Rowan" title="Rowan">rowans</a>")</li> <li>Killycomain or Killicomain (from <i>Coill Uí Chomáin</i> meaning "Ó Comáin's woodland")</li> <li>Levaghery (from <i>Leathmhachaire</i> meaning "half plain")</li> <li>Lisnisky (from <i>Lios an Uisce</i> meaning "<a href="/wiki/Ringfort" title="Ringfort">ringfort</a> of the water") – the fields in Lisnisky separate Portadown from Craigavon</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seagoe" class="mw-redirect" title="Seagoe">Seagoe</a> Upper (from <i>Suidhe Gobha</i> meaning "seat of <a href="/wiki/St._Gobhan" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Gobhan">Gobhan</a>")</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate">Climate</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Climate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The climate of Portadown is like that of much of the rest of the UK and Ireland, being a <a href="/wiki/Temperate_climate" title="Temperate climate">temperate</a> <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_climate" title="Oceanic climate">oceanic</a> climate. It has mild temperatures throughout the year, with summer temperatures not reaching levels to be deemed very hot and winter not very cold. Summer temperatures can reach more than 20 °C (68 °F) though it is rare for them to go higher than 30 °C (86 °F). The consistently humid climate that prevails over Ireland can make these temperatures feel uncomfortable when they stray into the high 20s °C (80–85 °F), more so than similar temperatures in hotter climates in the rest of Europe. It also receives a steady amount of rainfall throughout the year. </p> <div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:auto; text-align:center; line-height:1.2em;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="14">Climate data for Portadown </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Month </th> <th scope="col">Jan </th> <th scope="col">Feb </th> <th scope="col">Mar </th> <th scope="col">Apr </th> <th scope="col">May </th> <th scope="col">Jun </th> <th scope="col">Jul </th> <th scope="col">Aug </th> <th scope="col">Sep </th> <th scope="col">Oct </th> <th scope="col">Nov </th> <th scope="col">Dec </th> <th scope="col" style="border-left-width:medium">Year </th></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily maximum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #FFEBD7; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.4<br />(45.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFE6CD; color:#000000;" class="notheme">8.1<br />(46.6) </td> <td style="background: #FFD7B0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.2<br />(50.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFC78F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">12.6<br />(54.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFB266; color:#000000;" class="notheme">15.6<br />(60.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFA144; color:#000000;" class="notheme">18.0<br />(64.4) </td> <td style="background: #FF962D; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.7<br />(67.5) </td> <td style="background: #FF9932; color:#000000;" class="notheme">19.3<br />(66.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFA954; color:#000000;" class="notheme">16.9<br />(62.4) </td> <td style="background: #FFC184; color:#000000;" class="notheme">13.4<br />(56.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFD9B3; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.0<br />(50.0) </td> <td style="background: #FFE8D2; color:#000000;" class="notheme">7.7<br />(45.9) </td> <td style="background: #FFC285; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">13.3<br />(55.9) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Mean daily minimum °C (°F) </th> <td style="background: #F0F0FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.9<br />(35.4) </td> <td style="background: #EFEFFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">1.6<br />(34.9) </td> <td style="background: #F7F7FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.1<br />(37.6) </td> <td style="background: #FDFDFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">4.3<br />(39.7) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFE0; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.7<br />(44.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFDBB8; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.6<br />(49.3) </td> <td style="background: #FFCD9B; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.7<br />(53.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFCF9F; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.4<br />(52.5) </td> <td style="background: #FFDCBA; color:#000000;" class="notheme">9.5<br />(49.1) </td> <td style="background: #FFEFDF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">6.8<br />(44.2) </td> <td style="background: #FBFBFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">3.9<br />(39.0) </td> <td style="background: #F2F2FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">2.1<br />(35.8) </td> <td style="background: #FFF3E8; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">6.1<br />(43.0) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average <a href="/wiki/Precipitation" title="Precipitation">precipitation</a> mm (inches) </th> <td style="background: #8F8FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">74.5<br />(2.93) </td> <td style="background: #A6A6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">54.0<br />(2.13) </td> <td style="background: #9D9DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">65.6<br />(2.58) </td> <td style="background: #A6A6FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.6<br />(2.27) </td> <td style="background: #A8A8FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">57.8<br />(2.28) </td> <td style="background: #A5A5FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">58.4<br />(2.30) </td> <td style="background: #A1A1FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">62.7<br />(2.47) </td> <td style="background: #8D8DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">76.3<br />(3.00) </td> <td style="background: #9696FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">68.1<br />(2.68) </td> <td style="background: #7F7FFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">85.5<br />(3.37) </td> <td style="background: #8C8CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">74.6<br />(2.94) </td> <td style="background: #8C8CFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">77.1<br />(3.04) </td> <td style="background: #9898FF; color:#000000; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">812.3<br />(31.98) </td></tr> <tr style="text-align: center;"> <th scope="row" style="height: 16px;">Average precipitation days <span style="font-size:90%;" class="nowrap">(≥ Days of rainfall >= 1 mm)</span> </th> <td style="background: #4E4EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">14.3 </td> <td style="background: #6A6AFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.0 </td> <td style="background: #5A5AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.3 </td> <td style="background: #6B6BFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.6 </td> <td style="background: #6D6DFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.8 </td> <td style="background: #7474FF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">10.9 </td> <td style="background: #6E6EFF; color:#000000;" class="notheme">11.7 </td> <td style="background: #5E5EFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.0 </td> <td style="background: #6363FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">12.2 </td> <td style="background: #5555FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.7 </td> <td style="background: #5151FF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.6 </td> <td style="background: #5A5AFF; color:#FFFFFF;" class="notheme">13.3 </td> <td style="background: #6161FF; color:#FFFFFF; border-left-width:medium" class="notheme">150.3 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="14" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%;">Source: Met Office<sup id="cite_ref-Portadown_climate_-_Met_Office_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Portadown_climate_-_Met_Office-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For census purposes, Portadown is not treated as a separate entity by the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Statistics_and_Research_Agency" title="Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency">Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency</a> (NISRA). Instead, it is combined with Craigavon, <a href="/wiki/Lurgan" title="Lurgan">Lurgan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bleary" title="Bleary">Bleary</a> to form the "Craigavon Urban Area". However, a fairly accurate population count can be arrived at by combining the data of the electoral wards that make up Portadown. These wards are Annagh, Ballybay, Ballyoran, Brownstown, Corcrain, Edenderry, Killycomain and Tavanagh. </p><p>On the day of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2021">last census (21 March 2021)</a> the combined population of these wards was 32,926.<sup id="cite_ref-2021census_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021census-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br />Of this population: </p> <ul><li>17,063 (51.8%) were Protestant or from a Protestant background</li> <li>12,205 (37.0%) were Catholic or from a Catholic background</li> <li>3,658 (11.2%) were of other religious backgrounds or no religious background.<sup id="cite_ref-2021census_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2021census-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>On the day of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2011">census (21 March 2011)</a> the combined population of these wards was 22,899.<sup id="cite_ref-2011census_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2011census-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br />Of this population: </p> <ul><li>13,957 (60.9%) were Protestant or from a Protestant background</li> <li>7,300 (31.8%) were Catholic or from a Catholic background</li> <li>1,642 (7.3%) were of other religious backgrounds or no religious background.<sup id="cite_ref-2011census_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2011census-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Immigrants make up about 8% of the town's population, many of whom come from <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a> and <a href="/wiki/East_Timor" title="East Timor">East Timor</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> and <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the day of the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_Census_2021" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom Census 2021">last census (21 March 2021)</a> the combined ethnic groups of these wards are:<sup id="cite_ref-Ethnic_Group_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ethnic_Group-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /> </p> <ul><li>30,799 (93.5%) were White (including White British, White Irish and other white groups)</li> <li>1,025 (3.11%) were Black or British Black</li> <li>560 (1.7%) were Asian or British Asian (including South Asian, East Asian and Filippo)</li> <li>542 (1.6%) were other ethnic group (included mixed).<sup id="cite_ref-Ethnic_Group_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ethnic_Group-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_668124.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_668124.jpg/220px-Plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_668124.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_668124.jpg/330px-Plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_668124.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_668124.jpg/440px-Plaque_-_geograph.org.uk_-_668124.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="405" /></a><figcaption>Old Town Council plaque</figcaption></figure> <p>Portadown is part of the Upper Bann constituency for elections to the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_Assembly" title="Northern Ireland Assembly">Northern Ireland Assembly</a> and <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a>. The boundaries of the <a href="/wiki/Upper_Bann_(Assembly_constituency)" title="Upper Bann (Assembly constituency)">Assembly constituency</a> and <a href="/wiki/Upper_Bann_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Upper Bann (UK Parliament constituency)">Parliament constituency</a> are identical. This has long been a safe <a href="/wiki/Ulster_unionism" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulster unionism">unionist</a> seat.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Portadown came under the governance of Portadown Borough Council following the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Ireland)_Act_1898" title="Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898">Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898</a>. This was abolished with the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Boundaries)_Act_(Northern_Ireland)_1971" title="Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971">Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Act_(Northern_Ireland)_1972" title="Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972">Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972</a>. Henceforth, the town had been under the jurisdiction of the larger <a href="/wiki/Craigavon_Borough_Council" title="Craigavon Borough Council">Craigavon Borough Council</a>. However, after <a href="/wiki/Reform_of_local_government_in_Northern_Ireland" title="Reform of local government in Northern Ireland">local government reform</a> the town is now part of one of Northern Ireland's largest councils, the <a href="/wiki/Armagh,_Banbridge_and_Craigavon_District_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council">Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council</a>. Councillors are elected to the council every four years by <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional representation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The councillors for the DEA are: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Name </th> <th colspan="2">Party </th></tr> <tr> <td>Lavelle McIlwrath </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">DUP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Anderson_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="Sydney Anderson (Northern Ireland politician)">Sydney Anderson</a> </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #D46A4C;" data-sort-value="Democratic Unionist Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">DUP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Julie Flaherty </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #48A5EE;" data-sort-value="Ulster Unionist Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">UUP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Darryn Causby </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #aadfff;" data-sort-value="Independent Unionist"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_Unionist" title="Independent Unionist">Ind. Unionist</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Eamon McNeill </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #2AA82C;" data-sort-value="Social Democratic and Labour Party"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_and_Labour_Party" title="Social Democratic and Labour Party">SDLP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Paul Duffy </td> <td style="width: 2px; color:inherit; background-color: #326760;" data-sort-value="Sinn Féin"> </td> <td scope="row" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_sites">Religious sites</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Religious sites"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Portadown sits on the boundary between two parishes. This boundary is the River Bann. The part of the town on the west of the Bann is in Drumcree parish, while the part of the town on the east of the Bann is in Seagoe parish. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Protestant_churches">Protestant churches</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Protestant churches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The site of the Methodist church has moved several times and it now stands in Thomas Street.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1826, Saint Martin's <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a> was built, and later renamed Saint Mark's.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before this, Church of Ireland members attended either <a href="/wiki/Drumcree_Church" title="Drumcree Church">Drumcree Parish Church</a> or <a href="/wiki/Seagoe_Parish_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Seagoe Parish Church">Seagoe Parish Church</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The current Seagoe Parish Church of <a href="/wiki/St._Gobhan" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Gobhan">St. Gobhan</a>'s (Church of Ireland), was built in 1814, and replaced the many previous church foundations dating from circa the 7th century, which existed in the ancient cemetery of Seagoe some one hundred yards distant. It is linked to Seagoe Primary School, which is maintained by the Church, and one of the few remaining Anglican primary schools. The former <a href="/wiki/Primus_of_the_Scottish_Episcopal_Church" title="Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church">Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church</a>, Most Revd <a href="/wiki/David_Chillingworth" title="David Chillingworth">David Chillingworth</a> was rector at Seagoe for 19 years. St Columba's Parish on the Loughhall Road, and Knocknamuckley Church of Ireland (St. Matthias) on the Bleary Road are also extant parishes.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are two <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_Ireland" title="Presbyterian Church in Ireland">Presbyterian</a> churches, First Portadown (aka Edenderry) Presbyterian Church (1822) and Armagh Road Presbyterian Church (1859). The Rev Stafford Carson was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, June 2009 to June 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are <a href="/wiki/Baptist" class="mw-redirect" title="Baptist">Baptist</a> meeting halls on Thomas Street and Killicomaine Road; an <a href="/wiki/Elim_Pentecostal_Church" title="Elim Pentecostal Church">Elim</a> church on Clonavon Avenue; a <a href="/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious Society of Friends">Quaker</a> meeting hall on Portmore Street; a large <a href="/wiki/Free_Presbyterian_Church_of_Ulster" title="Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster">Free Presbyterian</a> congregation meets in Levaghery. The <a href="/wiki/Pentecostal" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentecostal">pentecostal</a> Light of the World Ministries are located in the town, as are the <a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">evangelical</a> <a href="/wiki/Neocharismatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Neocharismatic">neocharismatic</a> <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Vineyard_Churches" title="Association of Vineyard Churches">Vineyard</a> Church. The <a href="/wiki/Salvation_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Salvation Army">Salvation Army</a> have a hall in Edward Street.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248256098">@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{width:100%!important}}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery{display:table}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-default{background:transparent;margin-top:4px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-center{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-left{float:left}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-right{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-none{float:none}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery-collapsible{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer{display:table-row}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div{display:table-cell;padding:0 4px 4px;text-align:center;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .main>div{display:table-cell}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallery{line-height:1.35em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div{display:table-cell;padding:4px;text-align:right;font-size:85%;line-height:1em}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .title>div *,.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .footer>div *{overflow:visible}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .gallerybox img{background:none!important}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .bordered-images .thumb img{border:solid var(--background-color-neutral,#eaecf0)1px}.mw-parser-output .mod-gallery .whitebg .thumb{background:var(--background-color-base,#fff)!important}</style><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default mod-gallery-center"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 185px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Edenderry_Memorial_Methodist_Church,_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_507828.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Edenderry Methodist"><img alt="Edenderry Methodist" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Edenderry_Memorial_Methodist_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_507828.jpg/150px-Edenderry_Memorial_Methodist_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_507828.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Edenderry_Memorial_Methodist_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_507828.jpg/225px-Edenderry_Memorial_Methodist_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_507828.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Edenderry_Memorial_Methodist_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_507828.jpg/300px-Edenderry_Memorial_Methodist_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph.org.uk_-_507828.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Edenderry Methodist</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 185px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Armagh_Road_Presbyterian_Church,_Church_Street,_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_568313.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Armagh Road Presbyterian"><img alt="Armagh Road Presbyterian" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Armagh_Road_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Church_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_568313.jpg/150px-Armagh_Road_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Church_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_568313.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Armagh_Road_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Church_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_568313.jpg/225px-Armagh_Road_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Church_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_568313.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Armagh_Road_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Church_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_568313.jpg/300px-Armagh_Road_Presbyterian_Church%2C_Church_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_568313.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Armagh Road Presbyterian</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 185px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_church_of_St._Gobhan_-_Seagoe_parish_church,_Portadown.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Seagoe Parish"><img alt="Seagoe Parish" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/The_church_of_St._Gobhan_-_Seagoe_parish_church%2C_Portadown.JPG/150px-The_church_of_St._Gobhan_-_Seagoe_parish_church%2C_Portadown.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="98" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/The_church_of_St._Gobhan_-_Seagoe_parish_church%2C_Portadown.JPG/225px-The_church_of_St._Gobhan_-_Seagoe_parish_church%2C_Portadown.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/The_church_of_St._Gobhan_-_Seagoe_parish_church%2C_Portadown.JPG/300px-The_church_of_St._Gobhan_-_Seagoe_parish_church%2C_Portadown.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2921" data-file-height="1915" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Seagoe Parish</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 185px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Friends_Meeting_House,_Portmore_Street,_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574781.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Friends Meeting House"><img alt="Friends Meeting House" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Friends_Meeting_House%2C_Portmore_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574781.jpg/150px-Friends_Meeting_House%2C_Portmore_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574781.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Friends_Meeting_House%2C_Portmore_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574781.jpg/225px-Friends_Meeting_House%2C_Portmore_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574781.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Friends_Meeting_House%2C_Portmore_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574781.jpg/300px-Friends_Meeting_House%2C_Portmore_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574781.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Friends Meeting House</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Catholic_churches">Catholic churches</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Catholic churches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Saint John the Baptist's Church was built in the townland of Ballyoran in 1783. The original church sat in the middle of what is now a large graveyard. A second Catholic church, Saint Patrick's, was built on William Street in 1835.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1980s Saint John's was taken down brick-by-brick, moved and rebuilt at the <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Folk_and_Transport_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulster Folk and Transport Museum">Ulster Folk and Transport Museum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cultra" title="Cultra">Cultra</a>, <a href="/wiki/County_Down" title="County Down">County Down</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A new Saint John's church was built close to where the original stood; it sits where the Garvaghy Road meets the Dungannon Road and was completed in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248256098"><div class="mod-gallery mod-gallery-default mod-gallery-center"><div class="main"><div><ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional nochecker bordered-images whitebg"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 245px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 240px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:St_Patrick%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Portadown_-_geograph_-_571123.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic"><img alt="Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/St_Patrick%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_571123.jpg/130px-St_Patrick%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_571123.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/St_Patrick%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_571123.jpg/194px-St_Patrick%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_571123.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/St_Patrick%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_571123.jpg/259px-St_Patrick%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_571123.jpg 2x" data-file-width="461" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 245px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 240px; height: 210px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:St_John%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Portadown_-_geograph_-_527608.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Saint John's Roman Catholic"><img alt="Saint John's Roman Catholic" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/St_John%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_527608.jpg/210px-St_John%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_527608.jpg" decoding="async" width="210" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/St_John%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_527608.jpg/315px-St_John%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_527608.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/St_John%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_527608.jpg/420px-St_John%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church%2C_Portadown_-_geograph_-_527608.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Saint John's Roman Catholic</div> </li> </ul></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_churches">Other churches</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Other churches"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a> has a church on the Brownstown Road. In addition the <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a> have a <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_Hall" title="Kingdom Hall">Kingdom Hall</a>, on the town outskirts in Kernan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sticking_up_posters_on_the_gate_piers_of_Portadown_Railway_Station.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sticking_up_posters_on_the_gate_piers_of_Portadown_Railway_Station.jpg/220px-Sticking_up_posters_on_the_gate_piers_of_Portadown_Railway_Station.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sticking_up_posters_on_the_gate_piers_of_Portadown_Railway_Station.jpg/330px-Sticking_up_posters_on_the_gate_piers_of_Portadown_Railway_Station.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sticking_up_posters_on_the_gate_piers_of_Portadown_Railway_Station.jpg/440px-Sticking_up_posters_on_the_gate_piers_of_Portadown_Railway_Station.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1373" /></a><figcaption>The old railway station in Edenderry (c. 1879)</figcaption></figure> <p>A combination of road, canal and rail links, all converging on <a href="/wiki/Portadown_railway_station" title="Portadown railway station">Portadown railway station</a>, gave it the nickname "Hub of the North" and this created employment through mass industry as well as helping the traditional agronomy of the area. The Newry Canal, opened in 1742,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> linked <a href="/wiki/Carlingford_Lough" title="Carlingford Lough">Carlingford Lough</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Sea" title="Irish Sea">Irish Sea</a> with Lough Neagh. It joined the River Bann a couple of miles to the southeast of Portadown. The canal opened up waterborne trade and left Portadown ideally situated to take full advantage of the trading routes. However, the canal went into decline with the growth of the railway network and it closed to commercial traffic in 1936.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(Ireland)" title="Great Northern Railway (Ireland)">Great Northern Railway</a> the overland trading routes were extended and delivery times shortened. The town's first railway station opened in 1842.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At Portadown railway station the line went in four directions – one went northeast toward Belfast, one northwest toward <a href="/wiki/Dungannon" title="Dungannon">Dungannon</a>, one southwest to <a href="/wiki/Armagh" title="Armagh">Armagh</a> and one southeast toward <a href="/wiki/Newry" title="Newry">Newry</a> and onward to <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>. Today only the <a href="/wiki/Dublin%E2%80%93Belfast_railway_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Dublin–Belfast railway line">Belfast–Dublin line</a> remains. Repair yards were opened in 1925<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and these large concrete buildings dominated the skyline on the west of the town centre. The current station opened in 1970. </p><p><a href="/wiki/National_Cycle_Route_9" title="National Cycle Route 9">National Cycle Route 9</a> links Portadown with <a href="/wiki/Belfast" title="Belfast">Belfast</a> and <a href="/wiki/Newry" title="Newry">Newry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Portadown's major employers have included: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Irwin%27s_Bakery" title="Irwin's Bakery">Irwin's Bakery</a> was established in 1912 by William David Irwin, grandfather of the existing joint managing directors, as a grocery retailer. It expanded into Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland in the 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Wade (Ireland) Ltd. Wade Ceramics<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> had a substantial plant in Portadown<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> between in Watson Street, Edenderry, adjacent to the Victorian Railway Station. The factory closed in 2002.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ulster Carpets Ltd was established in the town in 1938 and was the major employer producing woolen <a href="/wiki/Axminster" title="Axminster">Axminster</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Henry Denny & Sons (NI) Ltd. meat processors were originally established in Obins Street, but moved to Corcrain after being acquired by the Kerry Group in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Linen_manufacturing">Linen manufacturing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Linen manufacturing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Much of the town's industry in the 19th and 20th century was centred around the linen trade. The 1881 edition of Slater's Directory (a comprehensive listing of Irish towns) listed 15 manufacturing employers in Portadown at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portadown_Town_Hall,_Edward_Street,_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574764.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Portadown_Town_Hall%2C_Edward_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574764.jpg/220px-Portadown_Town_Hall%2C_Edward_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574764.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Portadown_Town_Hall%2C_Edward_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574764.jpg/330px-Portadown_Town_Hall%2C_Edward_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574764.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Portadown_Town_Hall%2C_Edward_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574764.jpg/440px-Portadown_Town_Hall%2C_Edward_Street%2C_Portadown._-_geograph.org.uk_-_574764.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Portadown_Town_Hall" title="Portadown Town Hall">Portadown Town Hall</a></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Portadown_Town_Hall" title="Portadown Town Hall">Portadown Town Hall</a>, in Edward Street, was once the seat of the town's local government until reform of local government in 1972. It is an 1890 Victorian building that has been extensively refurbished and offers an in-house theatre and conference facilities.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Millennium Court Arts Centre contains two galleries allowing local artists to exhibit their work.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ardress House is a 17th-century farmhouse that was remodelled in Georgian times and is today owned by the <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Places_of_Historic_Interest_or_Natural_Beauty" class="mw-redirect" title="National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty">National Trust</a>. It is open to the public offering guided tours, local walks, and recreations of farmyard life.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Newry Canal Way is a fully accessible restored canal towpath now usable as a bicycle route between <a href="/wiki/Newry_Town_Hall" title="Newry Town Hall">Newry Town Hall</a> and the Bann Bridge in Portadown. The Canal was the first summit level canal in Britain and Ireland and has 14 locks between its entrance at Carlingford Lough and Lough Neagh.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the attractions on the Newry Canal Way is Moneypenny's Lock, a site that includes an 18th-century lock-keeper's house, stables and <a href="/wiki/Bothy" title="Bothy">bothy</a>. This provided accommodation for workers on the canal and their horses in the days when the canal was part of the industrial transport network. Today it is administered jointly by the Museum Services and the Lough Neagh Discovery Centre at Oxford Island.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Located just outside the town off the Dungannon Road is the only fully restored <a href="/wiki/Royal_Observer_Corps" title="Royal Observer Corps">Royal Observer Corps</a> <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> Nuclear Monitoring Bunker in Northern Ireland. Opened in 1958 it, plus a further 57 other bunkers spread throughout Northern Ireland, would have been used to monitor and report the effects of a Nuclear Attack. The bunker, which was closed and abandoned in 1991 was fully restored to its 1980s appearance and opened as a museum in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:People_from_Portadown" title="Category:People from Portadown">Category:People from Portadown</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Deceased_people">Deceased people</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Deceased people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harris_Boyle" title="Harris Boyle">Harris Boyle</a> (1953–1975) was a high-ranking <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Volunteer_Force_(1966)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ulster Volunteer Force (1966)">Ulster Volunteer Force</a> (UVF) member who was blown up when he and another member planted a bomb onto the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings" title="Miami Showband killings">Miami Showband's</a> minibus.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Gilmore" title="George Gilmore">George Gilmore</a> (1898–1985) was a Protestant <a href="/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army_(1922-1969)" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Republican Army (1922-1969)">Irish Republican Army</a> (IRA) leader during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1934 he left the IRA and helped set up the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Congress" title="Republican Congress">Republican Congress</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Connolly_Column" title="Connolly Column">Connolly Column</a>. Thereafter, Gilmore remained a significant left wing figure within the republican movement.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Greeves" title="Marion Greeves">Marion Greeves</a> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">MBE</a> (1894–1979) was the first of only two female members of the <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Northern_Ireland" title="Senate of Northern Ireland">Senate of Northern Ireland</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She served as an independent from June 1950 until June 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Robert_Hart" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Robert Hart">Sir Robert Hart</a> (1835–1911) was a British consular official in China, who served from 1863 to 1911 as the second Inspector-General of China's <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Maritime_Customs_Service" title="Chinese Maritime Customs Service">Imperial Maritime Custom Service</a> (IMCS).<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Mervyn_Lindsay" title="Eric Mervyn Lindsay">Eric Mervyn Lindsay</a> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">OBE</a> (1907–1974) was an <a href="/wiki/Astronomer" title="Astronomer">astronomer</a> who was instrumental in setting up Armagh Planetarium. He was also responsible for persuading the Irish government and Harvard University to found a telescope at Boyden Station in South Africa for the purpose of charting the southern skies. He has a crater on the moon named after him.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_McCusker" title="Harold McCusker">Harold McCusker</a> (1940–1990) was an <a href="/wiki/Ulster_Unionist_Party" title="Ulster Unionist Party">Ulster Unionist</a> politician who served MP for Upper Bann till his death, and was tipped to be a future party leader.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Russell_(Irish_mathematician)" title="Robert Russell (Irish mathematician)">Robert Russell</a> (c. 1858–1938) was an Irish mathematician and academic who served as <a href="/wiki/Erasmus_Smith%27s_Professor_of_Mathematics" title="Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics">Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics</a> at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Trinity College Dublin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Walker_(critic)" title="Alexander Walker (critic)">Alexander Walker</a> (1930–2003) was a film critic who worked for the <i><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_Post" title="Birmingham Post">Birmingham Post</a></i> in the 1950s and the <i><a href="/wiki/London_Evening_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="London Evening Standard">London Evening Standard</a></i> from 1960 until his death. He was a highly influential figure within the film industry and also wrote a number of books on the topic.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth" title="D'Arcy Wentworth">D'Arcy Wentworth</a> (1762–1827), surgeon and founder of an Australian political dynasty.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wright_(loyalist)" title="Billy Wright (loyalist)">Billy Wright</a> (1960–1997) was a <a href="/wiki/Ulster_loyalism" title="Ulster loyalism">loyalist</a> paramilitary leader who spent much of his life in Portadown. He led the Mid Ulster Brigade of the UVF before founding a breakaway group called the <a href="/wiki/Loyalist_Volunteer_Force" title="Loyalist Volunteer Force">Loyalist Volunteer Force</a> (LVF) in 1996. He was assassinated by the <a href="/wiki/Irish_National_Liberation_Army" title="Irish National Liberation Army">Irish National Liberation Army</a> (INLA).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Living_people">Living people</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Living people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gloria_Hunniford" title="Gloria Hunniford">Gloria Hunniford</a> (born 1940) is a TV and radio presenter and formerly a singer. She is the mother of <a href="/wiki/Caron_Keating" title="Caron Keating">Caron Keating</a>, who died of breast cancer in 2004.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Sloan" title="Victor Sloan">Victor Sloan</a> <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">MBE</a> (born 1945) is a photographer and artist who lives and works in Portadown. Employing primarily the medium of photography, he manipulates his negatives and reworks his prints with paints, inks, toners and dyes. In addition to photography, he also uses video, and printmaking techniques.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Simpson_(Northern_Ireland_politician)" title="David Simpson (Northern Ireland politician)">David Simpson</a> (born 1959) former <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Unionist_Party" title="Democratic Unionist Party">Democratic Unionist Party</a> (DUP) Member of Parliament for Upper Bann.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brendan_McKenna" class="mw-redirect" title="Brendan McKenna">Brendan McKenna</a> is an Irish republican activist and spokesman of the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition. He was a <a href="/wiki/Sinn_F%C3%A9in" title="Sinn Féin">Sinn Féin</a> political advisor until 2007 and became General Secretary of <a href="/wiki/%C3%89ir%C3%ADg%C3%AD" title="Éirígí">éirígí</a> in 2009.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Binks" title="Les Binks">Les Binks</a> is a drummer who is best known for having been the drummer of <a href="/wiki/Judas_Priest" title="Judas Priest">Judas Priest</a> between March 1977 and July 1979.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_McCusker" title="Aaron McCusker">Aaron McCusker</a> (born 1978) is an actor most famous for playing <a href="/wiki/Jamie_Maguire" class="mw-redirect" title="Jamie Maguire">Jamie Maguire</a> in <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a>'s comedic drama series <i><a href="/wiki/Shameless_(UK_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shameless (UK TV series)">Shameless</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Johns" title="Paddy Johns">Paddy Johns</a> (born 1968) was an Irish rugby union player from 1990 until 2000 who represented Ulster and Ireland. He played at the <a href="/wiki/1995_Rugby_World_Cup" title="1995 Rugby World Cup">1995 Rugby World Cup</a> finals and the <a href="/wiki/1999_Rugby_World_Cup" title="1999 Rugby World Cup">1999 Rugby World Cup</a> finals.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Turkington" title="Colin Turkington">Colin Turkington</a> (born 1982) is an <a href="/wiki/Auto_racing" title="Auto racing">auto racing</a> driver and is the reigning <a href="/wiki/British_Touring_Car_Championship" title="British Touring Car Championship">British Touring Car Champion</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Carroll_(racing_driver)" title="Adam Carroll (racing driver)">Adam Carroll</a> (born 1982) is also an auto racing driver<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who raced for <a href="/wiki/A1_Team_Ireland" title="A1 Team Ireland">A1 Team Ireland</a> in the <a href="/wiki/A1_Grand_Prix" title="A1 Grand Prix">A1 Grand Prix</a> series and won in <a href="/wiki/2008-09_A1_Grand_Prix_season" class="mw-redirect" title="2008-09 A1 Grand Prix season">2008-09</a>. Carroll has also raced for <a href="/wiki/Fisichella_Motor_Sport" title="Fisichella Motor Sport">FMS International</a> in the <a href="/wiki/GP2_Series" title="GP2 Series">GP2 Series</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leigh_Alderson" title="Leigh Alderson">Leigh Alderson</a> (born 1986) is a male ballet dancer, model, actor and choreographer. Alderson was nominated for <i>The Arts Personality of the Year Award</i> in the Ulster Tatler Awards in two consecutive years, 2009 and 2010</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newton_Emerson" title="Newton Emerson">Newton Emerson</a> is a journalist and founder of the satirical online newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Portadown_News" title="Portadown News">Portadown News</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Pennell" title="Chris Pennell">Chris Pennell</a>, English rugby union player, was raised in the town.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lady_Mary_Peters" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady Mary Peters">Lady Mary Peters</a> (born 6 July 1939) former British athlete, best known for the pentathlon and shotput. She was born in England but relocated at age 11 to Portadown and was educated at <a href="/wiki/Portadown_College" title="Portadown College">Portadown College.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_O%27Neill_(footballer)" title="Michael O'Neill (footballer)">Michael Andrew Martin O'Neill MBE</a> (5 July 1969) Football manager</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Mullen" title="Tim Mullen">Tim Mullen</a> (born 1976), racing driver</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portadown_(59),_September_2009.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Portadown_%2859%29%2C_September_2009.JPG/220px-Portadown_%2859%29%2C_September_2009.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Portadown_%2859%29%2C_September_2009.JPG/330px-Portadown_%2859%29%2C_September_2009.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Portadown_%2859%29%2C_September_2009.JPG/440px-Portadown_%2859%29%2C_September_2009.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="4272" /></a><figcaption>Portadown Library</figcaption></figure> <p>Portadown has (or had) a large selection of academic institutions, past and present. Today, schools in Portadown operate under the <a href="/wiki/Dickson_Plan" title="Dickson Plan">Dickson Plan</a>, a transfer system in north Armagh that allows pupils at age 11 the option of taking the <a href="/wiki/11-plus" class="mw-redirect" title="11-plus">11-plus</a> exam to enter <a href="/wiki/Grammar_schools" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammar schools">grammar schools</a>, with pupils in comprehensive junior high schools being sorted into grammar and non-grammar streams. Pupils can get promoted to or demoted from the grammar stream during their time in those schools depending on the development of their academic performance, and at age 14 can take subject-based exams across the syllabus to qualify for entry into a dedicated grammar school to pursue <a href="/wiki/GCSE" title="GCSE">GCSEs</a> and <a href="/wiki/A-levels" class="mw-redirect" title="A-levels">A-levels</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Primary_education">Primary education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Primary education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The state-run Thomas Street Primary School, and Church Street Primary School, formerly the "Duke's School", were both incorporated into Millington Primary School 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other state-run primary schools include <a href="/wiki/Ballyoran_Primary_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballyoran Primary School">Ballyoran Primary School</a>, Bocombra Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Edenderry Primary School, Hart Memorial Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Moyallan Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Portadown Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Richmount Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Anglican</a> <a href="/wiki/Seagoe_Parish_Church#Seagoe_Primary_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Seagoe Parish Church">Seagoe Primary School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Derrycarne Primary School is now used as an Orange Hall by the Orange Order.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Primary schools managed by the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools are Presentation Convent Primary School,<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> St John the Baptist Primary School (<a href="/wiki/Irish_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Language">Irish:</a> <i>Bunscoil Eoin Baiste</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which has both English-medium and Irish-medium units within it,<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and St. John's Primary School.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> St Columba's Primary School in Carleton Street is now closed. </p><p>There is a multi-denominational or integrated primary school in the town, Portadown Integrated Primary School, which opened in 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-primary_education">Post-primary education</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Post-primary education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portadown_College" title="Portadown College">Portadown College</a> (Controlled) - a grammar school which was opened in 1924</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clounagh_Junior_High_School" title="Clounagh Junior High School">Clounagh Junior High School</a> (Controlled)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craigavon_Senior_High_School" title="Craigavon Senior High School">Craigavon Senior High School</a> (Controlled),<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killicomaine_Junior_High_School" title="Killicomaine Junior High School">Killicomaine Junior High School</a> (Controlled)<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_John_the_Baptist%27s_College,_Portadown" title="St John the Baptist's College, Portadown">St John the Baptist's College</a> (Catholic Maintained)<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern_Regional_College" title="Southern Regional College">Southern Regional College</a> - Portadown Technical College, later Portadown College of Further Education, was merged with Lurgan CFE and Banbridge CFE to form the Upper Bann Institute of Further Education. Further Education in the region was consolidated again when the institute was merged with other FE colleges in Armagh, Newry and Kilkeel to form the Southern Regional College.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Healthcare">Healthcare</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Healthcare"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_Health_and_Care_Centre,_Portadown_5_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1770276.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/New_Health_and_Care_Centre%2C_Portadown_5_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1770276.jpg/220px-New_Health_and_Care_Centre%2C_Portadown_5_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1770276.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/New_Health_and_Care_Centre%2C_Portadown_5_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1770276.jpg/330px-New_Health_and_Care_Centre%2C_Portadown_5_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1770276.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/New_Health_and_Care_Centre%2C_Portadown_5_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1770276.jpg/440px-New_Health_and_Care_Centre%2C_Portadown_5_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1770276.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Portadown Health Centre</figcaption></figure> <p>Access to a GP is provided at Portadown Health Centre.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hospital care and Accident and Emergency services are available at <a href="/wiki/Craigavon_Area_Hospital" title="Craigavon Area Hospital">Craigavon Area Hospital</a>, built 1972 on the outskirts of town as part of the Craigavon development.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ShamrockParkSep089.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/ShamrockParkSep089.jpg/220px-ShamrockParkSep089.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/ShamrockParkSep089.jpg/330px-ShamrockParkSep089.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/ShamrockParkSep089.jpg/440px-ShamrockParkSep089.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Shamrock_Park" title="Shamrock Park">Shamrock Park</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Association football is played by <a href="/wiki/Portadown_F.C." title="Portadown F.C.">Portadown F.C.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Annagh_United" class="mw-redirect" title="Annagh United">Annagh United</a> in the <a href="/wiki/NIFL_Championship" title="NIFL Championship">NIFL Championship</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bourneview_Young_Men_F.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Bourneview Young Men F.C.">Bourneview Young Men F.C.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hanover_F.C." title="Hanover F.C.">Hanover F.C.</a>, <a href="/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Youth_F.C." title="St Mary's Youth F.C.">St Mary's Youth F.C.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seagoe_F.C." title="Seagoe F.C.">Seagoe F.C.</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Mid-Ulster_Football_League" title="Mid-Ulster Football League">Mid-Ulster Football League</a>. </p><p>Rugby is played by <a href="/wiki/Portadown_RFC" title="Portadown RFC">Portadown Rugby Club</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_football" title="Gaelic football">Gaelic football</a> is played by Tír na nÓg GAA Club.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Portadown's main local newspaper is the <i><a href="/wiki/Portadown_Times" title="Portadown Times">Portadown Times</a></i>, which is published by <a href="/wiki/Johnston_Publishing_(NI)" title="Johnston Publishing (NI)">Johnston Publishing (NI)</a>. Although the newspaper focuses on the Portadown area, it also serves towns and villages across <a href="/wiki/County_Armagh" title="County Armagh">north Armagh</a>. It was founded in 1924 and is issued weekly.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 2001 and 2005, Portadown resident <a href="/wiki/Newton_Emerson" title="Newton Emerson">Newton Emerson</a> ran a controversial <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> online newspaper called the <i><a href="/wiki/Portadown_News" title="Portadown News">Portadown News</a></i>. The website, which was updated biweekly, attracted media attention by poking fun at Northern Ireland politics and culture.<sup id="cite_ref-duffy_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duffy-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portadown&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; 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