Whitecross is a small village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It lies within the civil parish of Ballymyre and the townland of Corlat ().Placenames NI In the 2011 census, it had a recorded population of 352.See Census 2011 - Headcount and Household Estimates for Settlements published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, available at http://www.nisra.gov.uk/census/2011/results/settlements.htmlNI Neighbourhood Information System
Whitecross has one public house, which was built in the 1970s on the site of the old police barracks. The original public house stood a few hundred yards away, at the bottom of the Ballymoyer Road. The area's old creamery, once noted for producing fine butter and cheese, was one of the earliest co-operatives in the country.
The townland of Corlat is one of eight townlands given to the Maor family as reward for keeping the Book of Armagh (the name Maor meaning "steward" or "keeper" in Irish). This book is now held at Trinity College, Dublin.
During The Troubles, Whitecross was the site of the shooting dead of three Catholic brothers by the Ulster Volunteer Force on 4 January 1976.
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