22 Facts About Lisburn

Lisburn's original site was a fort located north of modern-day Wallace Park.

Lisburn has built a fair timber bridge over the river of Lagan near the house.

Lisburn has already at the place 150,000 of bricks burnt with other materials.

Lisburn had a manor house built on what is Castle Gardens, and in 1623, a church on the site of the current cathedral.

Lisburn's students subscribed to his memorial and bust on the south interior of the cathedral.

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Lisburn's mill supplied damask to the royal courts of Europe and, in the early nineteenth century, was to draw celebrity visitors, among them Grand Duke Michael of Russia, Crown Prince Gustaf of Sweden, Louis Napoleon Lannes duc de Montebello, the Duke of Wellington and Lord John Russell.

Lisburn had built a model village for the workers, with 350 houses, two schools, a community hall, children's playground and a village sports ground.

In 1762, over 300 paraded through Lisburn brandishing blackthorn sticks as a protest against the threat of unemployment.

Lisburn successfully challenged the parliamentary nominees of the town and district's principal landlord, the Hertfords, on a platform of a representative reform to include votes for Catholics.

In 1852, Lord Hertford's agent, the Reverend James Stannus, the Rector of Lisburn Cathedral, had occasion to write to him suggesting a general increase in rents as punishment for the tenants both for an attack on his person and for their defiance in voting for a dissident Conservative, a free-trade "Peelite".

In July 1914, in the first of many acts of political violence Lisburn was to experience in the new century, the chancel of Lisburn Cathedral was destroyed by a bomb.

In 1920, Lisburn saw violence related to the Irish War of Independence and partition of Ireland.

Lisburn was likened to "a bombarded town in France" during the war.

Borough in 1973, Lisburn was granted city status in 2002 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden jubilee celebrations.

North and south divide in Lisburn can be seen either side of the railway line that goes through the centre of the city.

North Lisburn is home to many of the residential neighbourhoods, and contains the notable landmarks of the Thiepval Barracks, and the Laurelhill Sportszone.

Lisburn is the administrative centre of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council area, which includes Mazetown, Hillsborough, Moira, Dromara, Glenavy, and Drumbo.

Children from Catholic and Protestant homes in Lisburn are otherwise taught, with limited exception, separately on a pattern that, by the mid-nineteenth century, had been established throughout Ireland.

Lisburn is notable for its large number of churches, with 132 churches listed in the Lisburn City Council area.

Christ Church Cathedral, commonly referred to as Lisburn Cathedral, is the diocesan church for the Church of Ireland bishopric of Connor which encompasses the Lagan Valley and country Antrim.

Lisburn is served by National Cycle Route 9, connecting the city with Belfast with Newry.

Lisburn Square, located off Bow Street, is an almost outdoor shopping centre.