Craigavon

Craigavon was established as a planned town beginning in 1965, designed as a modernist 'new city' for Northern Ireland that would mirror British developments like Cumbernauld and Milton Keynes. The Craigavon Development Commission was appointed in October 1965 to develop approximately 6,000 acres of land between the existing towns of Lurgan and Portadown, with the ambitious goal of creating an ...