Blackskull is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland.

It is within the Craigavon Borough Council area.

The village is named after an old inn called the Black Skull, which had a picture of a black man's head on its sign.

A grisly local tale tells how a black man was beheaded and his skull mounted above the door of the Inn.

[1] Formerly, the area was known as Ballygunaghan (from Irish Baile Uí Dhuinneagáin 'O'Donegan's settlement'),[2][3] after the townland in which it lies.