Bellurgan

Bellurgan (Irish: Baile na Lorgan)[1] is a townland in the northeast of County Louth, Ireland.

Located approximately 6km from the town centre of Dundalk, as of the 2011 census the townland had a population of 665 people.

In 2013, Garda detective Adrian Donohoe was shot dead the car park during the robbery of a cash-in-transit van he was escorting.

[9] The Old Road in Bellurgan was once the main thoroughfare from Carlingford and indeed the whole Cooley peninsula to Dundalk, the road used to travel straight through Bellurgan park passing the back of the old estate house where there was access to drinking water for horses as they passed.

It opened in the 1870s to provide a link between Dundalk and the port at Greenore, from where a ferry service operated to Holyhead.

Mural at Bellurgan National School
A map, dated to 1777, which shows the area and borders of Bellurgan
Dundalk Bellurgan Greenore Newry Railway map