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Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy in the compilation of this brochure. Armagh City and District Council,<br />
Banbridge District Council and <strong>Craigavon</strong> Borough Council however, cannot accept responsibility for errors or omissions,<br />
but where such are brought to our attention, future publications will be amended accordingly.<br />
This guide is not an exhaustive list of visual arts and craft outlets across Armagh, Banbridge and <strong>Craigavon</strong>. For more<br />
information, please log onto www.armagh.gov.uk, www.banbridge.gov.uk, www.discovercraigavon.com.<br />
Lough Neagh<br />
<strong>Discover</strong>y Centre<br />
Oxford Island National<br />
Nature Reserve<br />
Lurgan, BT66 6NJ<br />
T: 028 3832 2205<br />
E: oxford.island@craigavon.gov.uk<br />
W: www.oxfordisland.com<br />
Lurgan Town Hall,<br />
Community, Arts and<br />
Resource Centre<br />
2 – 6 Union Street<br />
Lurgan, BT66 8DY<br />
T: 028 3832 2422<br />
E: lurgan.town.hall@craigavon.gov.uk<br />
<strong>Craigavon</strong><br />
Millennium Court<br />
Arts Centre<br />
William Street<br />
Portadown, BT62 3NX<br />
T: 028 3835 0935<br />
E: info@millenniumcourt.org<br />
W: www.millenniumcourt.org<br />
F.E. McWilliam<br />
Gallery and Studio<br />
200 Newry Road<br />
Banbridge, BT32 3NB<br />
T: 028 4062 3322<br />
E: femcwilliam@banbridge.gov.uk<br />
W: www.femcwilliam.com<br />
Banbridge<br />
District Council<br />
Civic Building<br />
Downshire Road<br />
Banbridge, BT32 3JY<br />
T: 028 4066 0600<br />
F: 028 4066 0601<br />
E: info@banbridge.gov.uk<br />
Armagh<br />
Tourist Information<br />
Centre<br />
40 English Street,<br />
Armagh, BT61 7BA<br />
T: 028 3752 1800<br />
F: 028 3752 8329<br />
E: tic@armagh.gov.uk<br />
W: www.armagh.gov.uk<br />
www.bigfishdesign-ad.com<br />
Armagh Banbridge <strong>Craigavon</strong><br />
The Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre<br />
is Armagh’s state of the art cultural and<br />
conference facility in the heart of this<br />
historic city.<br />
In an all year round programme, we present<br />
the best in arts performances, activities,<br />
and entertainment with something to suit<br />
everyone’s taste.<br />
The Market Place Theatre, Armagh City<br />
The Market Place, Armagh Theatre and Arts Centre • Market Street • Armagh City BT61 7BW • Co. Armagh<br />
www.marketplacearmagh.com • e-mail: admin@marketplacearmagh.com<br />
Adm Tel: 028 3752 1820 • Box Office Tel: 028 3752 1821 • Fax: 028 3752 1822<br />
Saint Patrick’s Trian, Armagh City<br />
Inspiring Creativity<br />
Saint Patrick’s Trian Visitor Complex<br />
is one of Armagh City’s finest cultural<br />
arts centres. Home to Ireland’s premier<br />
Uilleann pipe making workshop. Here you<br />
can observe master craftsmen at work as<br />
they design and create traditional pipes for<br />
pipers from around the world. The centre<br />
offers extensive beautiful gallery space<br />
for the aspiring and established artists.<br />
The Granary and Rotunda Galleries are<br />
popular with artists of all genres and host<br />
an exciting range of visual art exhibitions<br />
Saint Patrick’s Trian • 40 English Street • Armagh BT61 7BA • Northern Ireland<br />
www.armagh.co.uk • email: info@armagh.co.uk • Tel: +44 (028) 3752 1801<br />
Located near the centre of St Patrick’s<br />
cathedral city, a visit to Armagh County<br />
Museum is an ideal way to experience a<br />
flavour of the orchard county. The unique<br />
character of the Museum’s architecture<br />
makes it one of the most distinctive<br />
buildings in Armagh where the collections<br />
reflect the lives of those people who have<br />
lived, worked or are associated with the<br />
county.<br />
<strong>Discover</strong> a rich and varied legacy revealed in<br />
objects ranging from prehistoric artefacts to<br />
household items from a bygone age. There<br />
are military costumes, wedding dresses,<br />
ceramics, natural history specimens and<br />
Armagh County Museum • The Mall East • Armagh BT61 9BE<br />
www.nmni.com • email: acm.info@nmni.com • T: 028 3752 3070<br />
From top quality drama to comedy<br />
nights, from children’s shows to variety<br />
entertainment, everyone is spoilt for choice.<br />
And it’s not just about the shows<br />
on stage. Our in-house bar facilities offer<br />
late-night entertainment on Friday and<br />
Saturday evenings.<br />
throughout the year. Our annual calendar<br />
hosts a range of art mediums, textures<br />
and inspiring themes through oils, textiles,<br />
watercolours, sculpture, photography and<br />
three dimensional installations. City centre<br />
based, our gallery space provides great<br />
access for visitors on foot or by transport.<br />
The centre provides a retail showcase space<br />
for a range of high quality hand crafted<br />
arts and crafts products by artists and craft<br />
makers throughout Ireland and the UK.<br />
Armagh County Museum, Armagh City<br />
Benburb Priory, Armagh<br />
Benburb is set in the lush rolling hills of<br />
southeast Tyrone, in the heart of Northern<br />
Ireland. Besides the superb scenery and<br />
landscapes Benburb Valley Park has many<br />
other facilities that cover a wide range of<br />
activities. The Blackwater River with its<br />
serpentine trails has hewn a beautiful<br />
gorge across the countryside and is an ideal<br />
location for canoeing, fishing and walking.<br />
More recently Benburb has been growing as<br />
railway memorabilia. An impressive art<br />
collection includes works by many well<br />
known Irish artists.<br />
The Museum staff aim to ensure that all<br />
visitors feel welcome and are keen to<br />
help with inquiries. There is an extensive<br />
reference library, rich in local archive<br />
material, along with photographic and map<br />
collections.<br />
As well as the permanent displays, there is<br />
a range of temporary exhibitions throughout<br />
the year.<br />
Opening times: Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm,<br />
Sat 10 – 1 & 2 – 5pm<br />
a centre for quiet reflection, a place to which<br />
one can retreat from the toils of modern life.<br />
Testament to this is our growing community<br />
of artists and craftspeople who practice<br />
their basket weaving, potting, photographing<br />
and painting in our Priory Cottages art &<br />
craft studios. Many of the arts and crafts<br />
produced in Benburb, including Stephen<br />
Farnan and Alison Fitzgerald can now be<br />
purchased online.<br />
Art, Craft & Design Studios • Priory Cottages • Benburb BT71 7LA • County Tyrone • Northern Ireland<br />
www.benburb.com • email: info@benburb.com • Tel: +44 (02837) 547767<br />
Navan Centre and Fort<br />
This site was the royal seat of the Kings of<br />
Ulster and the ancient capital of<br />
the Province. Start your tour in the<br />
‘Vanished World’ of lost myths, travel in<br />
the ‘Real World’ of archaeology and then<br />
enter the ‘Other World’ to hear the<br />
legends of the Ulster Cycle.<br />
There is an unique opportunity to visit<br />
an Iron Age dwelling and, through Living<br />
History interpretation learn about a past<br />
life. Finally walk the path of history to the<br />
great Ancient Seat of the Kings, Navan Fort.<br />
Family fun for all!<br />
Opening Hours: April – September daily<br />
10.00am - 7.00pm [Last admission: 5.30pm]<br />
October - March daily 10.00am - 4.00pm<br />
[Last admission: 3.00pm]<br />
Admission fee on request<br />
81 Killylea Road • Armagh, BT60 4LD • Tel: 028 3752 9644 • Fax: 028 3752 6431 • email: navan@armagh.gov.uk<br />
w: www.armagh.co.uk<br />
Arts Festival & Craft Fair, Banbridge<br />
The Community Arts Festival & Craft<br />
Fair takes place annually during the last<br />
two weeks of October. The programme<br />
comprises of a wide range of events and<br />
activities including art classes, exhibitions,<br />
adult and children’s’ workshops. The<br />
Festival Guide is widely available from mid<br />
September.<br />
Craft exhibitors from across Northern<br />
Ireland and further afield will showcase<br />
jewellery, furniture, ceramics, glassware<br />
and much more. There will be craft making<br />
demonstrations, children’s entertainment<br />
and live music.<br />
F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, Banbridge<br />
The F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio is<br />
dedicated to the memory of Banbridge-born<br />
sculptor Frederick Edward McWilliam, one<br />
of Ireland’s most influential and successful<br />
artists. Frederick Edward McWilliam was<br />
born in Banbridge on the 30th April 1909.<br />
He died in London in 1992 and the executors<br />
of his estate donated the sculptor’s studio<br />
and its contents to the town of his birth. The<br />
gallery and studio houses the collection in a<br />
superb exhibition facility of gallery, garden<br />
and reconstructed studio.<br />
Gallery Talks and Tours<br />
Gallery staff are on hand at all times to<br />
assist the public with information and to<br />
respond to enquiries. Free tours operate<br />
from Monday to Saturday from 11.00am to<br />
F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio • 200 Newry Road, Banbridge, Co. Down BT32 3NB<br />
Tel: 028 4062 3322 • email: femcwilliam@banbridge.gov.uk • www.femcwilliam.com<br />
The Brontë Music Club is gaining a<br />
reputation as one of Ireland’s premier<br />
music venues. The centre has played host<br />
to many artists, both international and local,<br />
Solitude Park Banbridge<br />
The picturesque park, which is situated in<br />
the heart of Banbridge town and covers an<br />
area of 10.5 acres, has been rejuvenated<br />
beyond recognition. It includes an<br />
amphitheatre for open air events, a series<br />
of formal gardens, a sculpture trail and a<br />
youth dance zone.<br />
Gate Lodge Banbridge<br />
The Gate Lodge Memorial Park currently<br />
stands on the site of the former Banbridge<br />
Workshouse which was erected in 1841 and<br />
which later became the Banbridge Hospital<br />
in 1932.<br />
Linen has been woven from yarn spun from<br />
natural flax fibre for around 10,000 years<br />
and is one of the nature’s greatest fabrics.<br />
Although linen is woven in many parts of<br />
the world, it is Irish linen which is widely<br />
recognised as the finest of all.<br />
Ferguson’s Irish Linen was established in<br />
1854, and is widely recognised as being the<br />
finest of Irish Weavers.<br />
The combination of fine raw materials,<br />
skilled weavers, advanced loom technology<br />
and careful finishing have brought<br />
The Brontë Music Club, Rathfriland<br />
11.45am. Group tours may be arranged by<br />
appointment.<br />
Quails at the Gallery<br />
Quail’s offer award-winning and high quality<br />
foods for which this family-run business is<br />
well renowned.<br />
Crafts at the Gallery<br />
The gallery showcases beautifully<br />
handcrafted products made by talented<br />
designers and makers of jewellery,<br />
ceramics, fashion accessories and gifts.<br />
Opening Hours<br />
The Gallery is open Monday to Saturday<br />
from 10.00am until 5.00pm and Sunday from<br />
1.00pm until 5.00pm.<br />
including legends such as The Paperboys,<br />
Eliza Gilkyson, Kieran Kane, The Believers,<br />
Kimmie Rhodes, Gretchen Peters and Brian<br />
Houston to name but a few.<br />
The Brontë Interpretative Centre • Church Hill Road, Drumballyroney • Rathiriland, Co. Down (9 miles south east of<br />
Banbridge) • Contact Banbridge Tourist Information Centre • Tel 028 4062 3322 • email: tic@banbridge.gov.uk •<br />
www.brontemusicclub.com<br />
Public Art<br />
Bronte Centre, Rathfriland<br />
Mosaic artwork depicting a scene from<br />
Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte.<br />
Dree Hill, Finnis<br />
The sculpture consists of cut granite slabs<br />
with stainless steel sheets sandwiched<br />
between in a way to create the impression<br />
of water at the base of the valleys and at<br />
different levels. Depicts the source of the<br />
River Lagan.<br />
Murals in Rathfriland and Loughbrickland<br />
Murals cover all aspects of local history up<br />
to the present day.<br />
Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen, Banbridge<br />
Thomas Ferguson Irish Linen, 54 Scarva Street, Banbridge BT32 3QD • Tel: 028 4062 3491<br />
email: info@fergusonsirishlinen.com • www.fergusonsirishlinen.com<br />
Ferguson’s a reputation of which it is proud.<br />
It is world renowned for it’s fabulous<br />
product, and has established a growing<br />
reputation as an innovative designer and<br />
manufacturer of stylish new collections.<br />
Enjoy the Linen experience by going on a<br />
factory tour, seeing how Irish Linen is woven<br />
and finished.<br />
Opening Hours: Monday – Thursday<br />
9.00am – 4.30pm Friday 9.00am – 12.15pm<br />
Art in the Wetlands, Maghery<br />
Art in the Wetlands is a visionary project<br />
aimed at celebrating and renewing the<br />
cultural traditions of the South Lough<br />
Neagh Wetlands area. Traditional activities<br />
such as willow basket-making, fishing,<br />
boat-making, peat-cutting and farming<br />
provided rich inspiration for the four artists<br />
Arts Development • Oxford Island National Nature Reserve • Lurgan, Co Armagh, BT66 6NJ<br />
Tel 028 3831 1680 • email arts.development@craigavon.gov.uk<br />
Running the Lines, Derrytrasna<br />
This sculpture is of an<br />
eel fisherman ‘Running<br />
the Lines’ or baiting the<br />
hooks for the next day’s<br />
catch out on the Lough. His expression<br />
reflects both the pride he feels for his job,<br />
and the persecution felt by the members of<br />
Located in Derrytrasna, New Charlestown Road. By Eamonn Higgins, Recycled Stainless Steel<br />
Ballydougan is one of Ireland’s foremost<br />
potteries where the traditional craft of<br />
pottery making continues today.<br />
Today, each piece of pottery made in the<br />
workshop is still thrown and decorated<br />
by hand, using the same century-old<br />
techniques potters have always used.<br />
During your visit you can observe the potters<br />
at work in the pottery studio; meander<br />
through the extensive Gift Shop in the<br />
historic thatched Grade II listed Bloomvale<br />
Millennium Court Arts Centre contains<br />
two purpose built gallery spaces providing<br />
a platform for showcasing contemporary<br />
works by local, national and international<br />
artists.<br />
2 - 6 William Street • Portadown, Co Armagh, BT62 3NX • Tel 028 3839 4415<br />
email info@millenniumcourt.org • www.millenniumcourt.org<br />
Portadown takes its name from the Irish:<br />
Port an Dúnáin meaning: “port of the small<br />
stronghold”. Embark on a journey through<br />
the years of our past on the Portadown<br />
Portadown Town Trail, Bann Bridge<br />
involved. Working alongside members of<br />
local communities, the artists delivered<br />
workshops in their chosen disciplines and<br />
produced permanent sculptures sited along<br />
Route 94 of the National Cycle Network<br />
between Maghery and Aghagallon.<br />
this once strong, now dwindling profession.<br />
As well as producing this permanent<br />
sculpture, Eamonn Higgins continues to<br />
pass on his metal-working skills to the local<br />
community in blacksmithing workshops at<br />
Tannaghmore Farm.<br />
IH 99045 62600<br />
Ballydougan Pottery, <strong>Craigavon</strong><br />
House or watch a pottery demonstration<br />
by the experts (this must be booked in<br />
advance).<br />
Feeling creative....why not try a pottery<br />
workshop or class (booking essential).<br />
Classes are available to both groups and<br />
individuals.<br />
Ballydougan Pottery is open Mon – Sat,<br />
9.00am – 5.00pm. Potters Viewing Gallery<br />
and Restaurant and Coffee Shop are also<br />
open during these times.<br />
Ballydougan Pottery • 171 Plantation Road • Gilford, <strong>Craigavon</strong> • BT63 5NN • Tel: 028 3834 2201<br />
www.ballydouganpottery.co.uk • email info@ballydouganpottery.co.uk<br />
Take the Lurgan Town Trail for a journey of<br />
discovery following the heritage buildings<br />
of Lurgan. In all parts of the town there<br />
are many impressive examples erected by<br />
Lurgan Town Trail, Brownlow House<br />
talented craftsmen, with an appeal deeper<br />
than can be conveyed by mere terms of<br />
brick, stone and plaster.<br />
Copies of the Town Trail are available at Lurgan Town Hall • 2 - 6 Union Street, Lurgan, Co Armagh, BT66 8DY •<br />
Tel 028 3832 2422<br />
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown<br />
The Centre hosts Open Art Days and Craft<br />
Festival Days throughout the year. FREE<br />
admission although fees apply for classes<br />
and workshops.<br />
Town Trail and discover the character and<br />
attractiveness of the streetcape which has<br />
been preserved to this day.<br />
Copies of the Town Trail are available at Millennium Court Arts Centre • 2-6 William Street, Portadown, Co Armagh, BT62 3NX<br />
Tel 028 3835 0935
Tynan<br />
Middletown<br />
to to Monaghan<br />
Monaghan<br />
Benburb<br />
Killylea Milford<br />
Darkley<br />
Charlemont<br />
to Dungannon<br />
ARMAGH CITY<br />
KEADY<br />
Ardress<br />
Loughgall<br />
Coney<br />
Island<br />
Kilmore<br />
Hamiltonsbawn<br />
Milltown<br />
MARKETHILL<br />
Ardmore<br />
Point<br />
CRAIGAVON<br />
PORTADOWN<br />
Richhill<br />
Aghacommon<br />
Drumnacanvy<br />
Laurelvale<br />
LOUGH<br />
NEAGH<br />
TANDRAGEE<br />
Poyntzpass<br />
Gawleys Gate<br />
Oxford<br />
Island<br />
LURGAN<br />
Lawrencetown<br />
GILFORD<br />
Scarva<br />
Bleary<br />
Loughbrickland<br />
to Newry<br />
Dublin<br />
Aghagallon<br />
to<br />
Belfast<br />
Magheralin<br />
Dollingstown<br />
Donaghcloney<br />
Waringstown<br />
Seapatrick<br />
BANBRIDGE<br />
to Lisburn<br />
Belfast<br />
Annaclone<br />
Benburb Priory,<br />
Armagh<br />
The Market Place<br />
Theatre, Armagh<br />
City<br />
Armagh County<br />
Museum, Armagh<br />
City<br />
Navan Centre<br />
and Fort<br />
Saint Patrick’s<br />
Trian, Armagh City<br />
DROMORE<br />
Katesbridge<br />
Moneyslane<br />
Ballyroney<br />
RATHFRILAND<br />
Kinallen<br />
The Brontë Music<br />
Club, Drumballyroney<br />
F.E. McWilliam<br />
Gallery and<br />
Studio, Banbridge<br />
Thomas<br />
Ferguson Irish<br />
Linen<br />
Dree Hill,<br />
Finnis<br />
Public Art, Solitude<br />
Park Banbridge<br />
(artist Ann McCall)<br />
Lowtown<br />
Ballyward<br />
Finnis<br />
Slieve<br />
Croob<br />
to Castlewellan<br />
Newcastle<br />
Arts in the<br />
Wetlands, Maghery<br />
Running the Lines<br />
by Eamonn Higgins,<br />
Derrytrasna<br />
Ballydougan<br />
Pottery, <strong>Craigavon</strong><br />
Lurgan Town<br />
Trail, Brownlow<br />
House<br />
Millennium Court<br />
Arts Centre,<br />
Portadown<br />
Portadown<br />
Town Trail,<br />
Bann Bridge
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