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Welcome to
LURGANRUGBYCLUB.COM.
This website
is designed to
keep visitors
and supporters
of
the club up-to-date with the
latest club
news, results
and social
events. We
provide an
online community
were people are
welcome to voice
their opinions on
events
surrounding the
club. Keep
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Lurgan is
one of the
oldest Rugby
Clubs in
Ireland (128
Years), first
fielding a team
in 1880. The
only surviving
records from
those early
years of Lurgan’s history
are two framed
of the teams
from 1880 and
1900.
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In those early
years Lurgan
played at Soye’s
Folly in the
town before
moving to
Annaloiste and
then to
Toberhewny and
the Tandragee
Road.
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The
Great
War saw
the
playing
of rugby
suspended. |
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In 1919 the Club
was reformed
and rented
the showground
in Lurgan Park
as a playing
pitch and
obtained the use
of changing
facilities,
including the
famous sunken
bath, and an
entertainments
room at Brownlow
Castle. The Club
still retains
its connection
with the Public
Park making
frequent use of
the pitch there.
Set amongst an
avenue of elm
trees the pitch
is one of the
most picturesque
venues for rugby
in the country.
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