Loughgall
Loughgall (/lɒxˈɡɔːl/ lokh-GAWL; from Irish Loch gCál)[1][2] is a small village, townland (of 131 acres) and civil parish in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.In the Middle Ages the chiefs of the Uí Nialláin, a Gaelic clan, resided at Loughgall crannog, a fortified lake dwelling.[6] In the early 1600s, the area was settled by English and Scottish Protestants as part of the Ulster Plantation.During the 1641 Irish Rebellion, settlers were held at a prison camp at Loughgall by Catholic rebels led by Manus O'Cane.[7] In 1795, rival sectarian gangs, the Catholic Defenders and Protestant Peep-o'-Day Boys fought a bloody skirmish near the village, called the Battle of the Diamond, that left around 30 people dead.