Portadown

Portadown (Irish port Dunain - " port of the fortress ") is a town in County Armagh in Northern Ireland.

The city is along with Lurgan and Craigavon ​​Craigavon ​​part of the boroughs and is located on the River Bann. In Census 2001, Portadown Craigavon ​​Urban Area part of, so that no population was determined for the city. In the 1990s, Portadown was known as the scene of conflict over a march of the Orange Order over Northern Ireland also. Since 1998, the July annual march to the church will no longer inhabited by the Irish nationalist Catholic Garvaghy Road in Drumcree.

The city's origins can be traced back longer, a upswing but only in Victorian times with the railway and the Great Northern Railway in.

Important in the city was the processing of linen with the following construction of a textile industry.

The most important local football club is the Portadown FC. In the town of Mary Peters, the winner lives in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games in Munich Heide Rosendahl and Burglinde Pollak.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Adam Carroll ( b. 1982 ), British racing driver