Lisburn

Lisburn, a market-town, partly in Antrim, partly in Down, on the Lagan, 93 miles by rail N. by E. of Dublin and 8 SW. of Belfast. The importance of the place is due to the Conway family, who built a castle here in the time of Charles I. and introduced the existing industries. It is a clean and well-ordered town, and manufactures linens, damasks, muslins, &c., and has flax-spinning and bleaching. Its parish church is the cathedral of Down, Connor, and Dromore, and contains a monument to Bishop Jeremy Taylor, who died here in 1667. Till 1885 Lisburn returned one member to parliament. Pop. (1851) 6569; (1881) 10,755; (1891) 12,250.