Lurgan Ancestry ~ Lurgan Timeline 1100

Lurgan Timeline 1000 - 1699

Year	Event
-1000	The McCanns - The Lords of Clan Breasail
1000	Small fort in Drumgask area.
1000	The Legend of Finn McCool
1000	Early Christian settlement in Lylo area.
1014	Brian Boru is killed at the Battle of Clontarf and burried in Saint Patricks Cathedral, Armagh
1567	The Fall of the O'Neills
1596	Clanbrassil (where Lurgan now stands) described as a very woody and boggy place.
1606	The Plantation of Ulster
1607	The Flight of the Earls
1610	Plantation of Lurgan. William and John Brownlow allotted 2,500 by James 1.
1611	The Sir George Carew report.
1619	John Brownlow died.
1619	Pynnar's Survey.
1622	William Brownlow mairred
1622	Lord Caulfield's Survey.
1629	Patent of Brownlow's Derry.
1630's	Artists impression of Lurgan prior to the 1641 Rebellion.
1641	The 1641 Rebellion.
1646	Garrison of British Troops retake Lurgan and Portadown. Most buildings in both towns were destroyed
1649	Cromwell's Conquest of Ireland
1654	The first meeting of The Quakers - The Society of Friends in Ireland took place in Lurgan
1657	The area was occupied by Cromwell's forces
1660	Sir William Brownlow died.
1664	Local family's listed in Hearth Taxes rolls.
1667	Waringstown House Built
1672	First entry in Shankill Parish Vestry minutes book.
1675	First entry of Burials in Shankill Parish
1676	First entry of Marriage in Shankill Parish.
1679	Captain Henry St. John killed at Drumlyn Hill.
1681	First entry of Baptism listed in Shankill Parish
1681	Redmond O'Hanlon is murdered
1684	Arthur Brownlow wins deer coursing at Castle Obins, in Portadown.
1686	Rev. Legard Blacker, rector of Shankill dies.
1690	Paul le Harper was sent to Portadown to make cider for King William's army.
1692	Arthur Brownlow elected MP for Armagh
1693	List of ratepayers in Lurgan recorded in Shankill Vestry Book. There were 99 houses listed in Lurgan

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