Dromore, a town, with linen manufactures, in the north-west of County Down, on the Lagan, 17 miles SW. of Belfast by rail. Pop. 2391. It is still the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese, as it was also of an Episcopal till 1842, when it was united with Down. Jeremy Taylor was Bishop of Dromore, and lies buried here in his cathedral.
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