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Extract from the Loughgall Travel Guides:
LOUGHGALL
, a small estate village about five miles west of Portadown (and the same distance north of Armagh along the B27) lies in the middle of apple orchard country, beautiful in the spring, and is worth visiting mainly for its historical connections. In 1988, the village was the scene of a British army ambush in which eight IRA men died, but both before and since has retained a genteel tranquillity. Like many of its neighbours in Armagh's rural north, Loughgall is strongly
Protestant
. It was three miles northeast of the village at Diamond Hill that the Battle of the Diamond took place in 1795, which led to the foundatio...
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