placenamesShankill
The old graveyard’s limited space prompted a new cemetery project in 1861.
Recorded locationShankill54.46434° N · 6.34288° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Shankill · English · main form
Place & story
The burial board’s decision
Kieran Clendinning’s history of Shankill graveyard records the pressure created by Lurgan’s growing industrial population. In 1861 the Town Commissioners, acting as a burial board, selected a four-acre site offered by Lord Lurgan at £10 a year. They also drew up a scale of burial charges. The decision marks a change in how the wider town provided burial space beyond its older Shankill graveyard. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Oneilland East
- Civil parish
- Shankill
- Coordinates
- 54.46434, -6.34288
- Mapped area
- 0.71 km²
- Logainm ID
- 56484 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Shankill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Shankill Graveyard, Lurgan, CoArmagh: New Cemetery · Kieran Clendinning; Ulster Historical Foundation
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.