Lurgan Trivia

Can you answer this questions about the Northern Irish town of Lurgan?

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Last updated: October 31, 2021

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Located in this county	County Armagh
Located in this council area	Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon
Meaning of name	Long, low ridge Shin-shaped hill
Population	25,069
Located near the southern shore of this lake	Lough Neagh
Home to the largest of these in Northern Ireland	Urban park
Famous greyhound brought up and buried in the town	Master McGrath
NIFL football team, in Premiership	Glenavon
Home ground for team; main stadium	Mourneview
Motorsport event held in town	Lurgan Park Rally
Aristocratic English family who owned lands in the town for over two hundred years	The Brownlows
North Street was formerly home to this type of religious building	Synagogue
Tiered education system used in town and local area	Dickson Plan

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Astrophysicist and former head of the Royal Astronomical Society who helped discover the first radio pulsars	Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Irish-Canadian hockey player who greatly contributed to women's ice hockey; served as defence for the Toronto Aeros and was inducted to Hockey Hall of Fame	Geraldine Heaney
American tyre company who owned a huge factory in Silverwood Estate from 1970-1983	Goodyear
Elegant Elizabethan mansion located opposite Lurgan Park; formerly used as military headquarters and today owned by Orange Order	Brownlow House Lurgan Castle
Scottish architect who designed the above	William Henry Mayfair
Mr Lurgan, whose surname is the same as that of the town, is a character from which Rudyard Kipling novel?	Kim
Traditional industry which dominated in the town	Textiles
Road that acts as a throughpass to the town's high street	Millennium Way
Church located in roundabout at the very centre of town	St Peter's Parish Church
Unusual Modernist church	St Paul's Catholic Church
Irish figure of speech	To have a face as long as a Lurgan spade
Railway company which owned the line and station prior to nationalisation through UTA and NIR	Great Northern Railway of Ireland
Located in this parliamentary constituency	Upper Bann