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{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox settlement  | name = Lurg | native_name = <small>''Lorg''<ref name="Logainm"/> ([[Irish language|Irish]])</small> | settlement_type = | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_map = Lurg barony.png | map_alt = | map_caption = Location of Lurg, [[County Fermanagh]], [[Northern Ireland]]. | subdivision_type = [[List of sovereign states|Sovereign state]] | subdivision_name = [[United Kingdom]] | subdivision_type1 = [[Country]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Northern Ireland]] | subdivision_type2 = [[Counties of Northern Ireland|County]] | subdivision_name2 = [[County Fermanagh|Fermanagh]] | area_magnitude = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = | area_total_sq_mi = | area_land_km2 = | area_land_sq_mi = | area_water_km2 = | area_water_sq_mi = | area_water_percent = | area_note = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = }} '''Lurg''' ({{etymology|ga|Lorg|mark, trail or track}}<ref name="Logainm"/>) is a [[Barony (Ireland)|barony]] situated in the north of [[County Fermanagh]], [[Northern Ireland]].<ref name="PRONI"/> To its south lies [[Lough Erne|Lower Lough Erne]], and it is bordered by four other baronies in Northern Ireland: [[Magheraboy]] to the south; [[Tirkennedy]] to the south-east; [[Omagh West]] to the north; and [[Omagh East]] to the east.<ref name="PRONI"/> It also borders to the west the barony of [[Tirhugh]] in the [[Republic of Ireland]].

==History== The barony of Lurg is based on the ancient Irish territory of ''Tuath Luirg'', also known as ''Fir Luirg'' (the men of Lurg),<ref name="CassidyClan"/> who are claimed to be genealogically related to the [[Airgialla]].<ref name="Logainm"/> This territory was the patrimonial inheritance of the O'Muldoon ({{langx|ga|Ó Maoldúin}}). It is listed in the Annals, under the name ''Lorg'', as being a kingdom in the year 1039.<ref name="Logainm"/><ref name="CassidyClan"/>

Prior to this, Lurg was the base of the O'Monaghan ({{langx|ga|Ó Manacháin}}), thought to be descended from the original inhabitants of the area, the ''Fir Manach'', from which [[County Fermanagh]] gets its name.<ref name="HistoryInMaps"/><ref name="UlsterNames"/>

According to 19th century genealogist [[John O'Hart]], the barony was also home to the [[Muintir Taithligh]] "chiefs of Hy-Laoghaire, of Lough Lir, a district which lay in the barony of Lurg, near [[Lough Erne]], towards Tyrone."<ref name=OH>{{cite book | last1 = O'Hart | first1 = John | authorlink1 = John O'Hart | title = Irish Pedigrees; or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation |chapter= Part VI, Chapter 4, Fermanagh. A: The Irish Chiefs and Clans |volume= 17 |date= 1892 |location= Dublin, Republic of Ireland |accessdate= 3 Feb 2011 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sl0BAAAAQAAJ&q=chiefs+of+Hy-Laoghaire+Irish+pedigrees%3B+or%2C+The+origin+and+stem+of+the+Irish+nation |page= 247 & 248}}</ref>

O'Hart also notes that the lord of Lurg in A.D. 924, Fergus MacDuilgen, is listed in the [[Annals of the Four Masters]], although not chronicled in the lists of families and clans of the scholar poet [[Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin]].<ref name=OH/>

==List of main settlements== *[[Belleek, County Fermanagh|Belleek]] (north of the [[River Erne]]) *[[Ederney]] *[[Irvinestown]] *[[Kesh, County Fermanagh|Kesh]]

==List of civil parishes== [[File:Barony of Lurg.png|thumb|right|250px|Civil parishes within the barony of Lurg, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland]] Below is a list of civil parishes in Lurg:<ref name="PRONI Parishes"/> *Belleek *[[Derryvullan]] (also partly in barony of Tirkennedy) *Drumkeeran *[[Magheraculmoney]] *Templecarn *[[Trory]] (also partly in barony of Tirkennedy)

==References== {{reflist| refs= <ref name="PRONI">[http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/local_history/geographical_index/baronies_.htm PRONI Baronies of Northern Ireland]</ref> <ref name="PRONI Parishes">{{Cite web |url=http://applications.proni.gov.uk/geogindx/ferm.htm |title=PRONI CIvil Parishes of County Fermanagh |access-date=27 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517064519/http://applications.proni.gov.uk/geogindx/ferm.htm |archive-date=17 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name="CassidyClan">[http://www.cassidyclan.org/odonovanletters.htm The Letters of John O'Donovan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100728060336/http://www.cassidyclan.org/odonovanletters.htm |date=2010-07-28 }}</ref> <ref name="UlsterNames">Bell, Robert; ''The Book of Ulster Surnames'', page 194. The Black Staff Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0-85640-602-3}}</ref> <ref name="HistoryInMaps">[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/baronie2.htm The Baronies of Ireland - Family History]</ref> <ref name="Logainm">{{cite web |url=http://www.logainm.ie/303.aspx |title=Lurg |work=Placenames Database of Ireland |publisher=Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs |accessdate=4 December 2012}}</ref> }}

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