Coordinates: 54°30′43″N 6°01′52″W / 54.512°N 6.031°W
| Lisburn | |
| Irish: Lios na gCearrbhach | |
 Ex Igne Resurgam "Out of the fire, I shall arise" |
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  Lisburn
Lisburn shown within Northern Ireland |
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| Population | 71,465 (2001 Census) |
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| - Belfast | 8 miles |
| District | Lisburn City |
| County | County Antrim County Down |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LISBURN |
| Postcode district | BT27 BT28 |
| Dialling code | 028 |
| Police | Northern Ireland |
| Fire | Northern Ireland |
| Ambulance | Northern Ireland |
| EU Parliament | Northern Ireland |
| UK Parliament | Lagan Valley |
| NI Assembly | Lagan Valley |
| Website | http://www.lisburn.gov.uk |
| List of places: UK • Northern Ireland • | |
Lisburn (Irish: Lios na gCearrbhach) is the third-largest city in Northern Ireland and the sixth-largest on the island of Ireland. It is situated south-west of Belfast on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down. It had a population of 71,465 people in the 2001 Census.
Formerly a borough, Lisburn was granted city status in 2002 as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee celebrations.
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The city was originally known as Lisnagarvey (from the Irish: Lios na gCearrbhach meaning "fort of the gamblers"). However, after a large fire destroyed much of the town centre in 1707, it was renamed Lisburn. The original name is still used in the titles of some local schools and sports teams.
Lisburn's original site was located on what is now known as Hill Street Estate, on a hill above the River Lagan. There was also a fort located at the north side of what is now known as Wallace Park. In 1611 James I granted Sir Fulke Conway the lands of Killultagh in south west County Antrim. During the 1620s the original streets of Lisburn as we know it today were laid out, Market Square, Bridge Street, Castle Street and Bow Street. Sir Fulke Conway brought over many English and Welsh settlers during the Ulster Plantation. He built a manor house on what is now Castle Gardens and in 1623 he built a church on the site of the current cathedral. The Manor House was destroyed in the accidental fire of 1707 and was never rebuilt.
Negotiations preceding the American War of Independence between Ben Franklin and Lord Hillsborough took place at Hillsborough.
Lisburn is also known as the birthplace of Ireland's linen industry, which was established in 1698 by Louis Crommelin and other Huguenots. An exhibition about the Irish linen industry is now housed in the Irish Linen Centre, which can be found in the town’s old Market House in Market Square.
Lisburn is one of the constituent cities that makes up the Dublin-Belfast corridor region which has a population of just under 3 million.
Between 1954 and 1992 Lisburn contained the operational headquarters of No 31 Belfast Group Royal Observer Corps[1] who operated from a protected nuclear bunker on Knox Road within Thiepval Barracks. Converted from a 1940s Anti-aircraft Operations Room (AAOR) the bunker would support over one hundred ROC volunteers and a ten man United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation warning team responsible for the famous Four-minute warning in the event of a nuclear strike on the UK. The ROC would also have detected radioactive fallout from the nuclear bursts and warned the public of approaching fallout.
The two organisations were stood down in 1992 at the end of the Cold War. In 2007 a commemorative plaque was mounted on the wall of the nuclear bunker which still stands, marking the volunteer service of ROC volunteers all over the Province. The well known BBC newsreader, TV personality and steam railway enthusiast Sullivan Boomer was an Observer Commander in the ROC and served as Group Commandant of the Belfast group during the 1970s and 1980s.
Lisburn is the administrative centre of the Lisburn City Council area,[2] which also includes Hillsborough, Moira, Dromara, Glenavy, Dunmurry and Drumbo.
In elections for the Westminster Parliament the city falls mainly into the Lagan Valley constituency but partly into West Belfast.
The headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland at Thiepval Barracks and the headquarters of the Northern Ireland Fire Brigade are located in the city.
| Historical populations | ||
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| Year | Pop. | %± |
| 1821 | 4,684 | — |
| 1831 | 5,745 | 22.7% |
| 1841 | 6,284 | 9.4% |
| 1851 | 6,533 | 4.0% |
| 1861 | 7,462 | 14.2% |
| 1871 | 7,876 | 5.5% |
| 1881 | 10,755 | 36.6% |
| 1891 | 12,250 | 13.9% |
| 1901 | 11,461 | −6.4% |
| 1911 | 12,388 | 8.1% |
| 1926 | 12,406 | 0.1% |
| 1937 | 13,042 | 5.1% |
| 1951 | 14,781 | 13.3% |
| 1961 | 17,700 | 19.7% |
| 1966 | 21,522 | 21.6% |
| 1971 | 31,836 | 47.9% |
| 1981 | 40,391 | 26.9% |
| 1991 | 42,110 | 4.3% |
| 2001 | 71,465 | 69.7% |
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Demographics
Lisburn Urban Area is within Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area (BMUA)and is classified as a Large Town by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (ie with population between 18,000 and 75,000 people). On census day (29 April 2001) there were 71,465 people living in Lisburn. Of these:
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Lisburn is notable for its large number of churches, with 134 churches listed in the Lisburn City Council area.[5] One of two cathedrals in the Church of Ireland Diocese of Connor is in Lisburn, Christ Church Cathedral.
The local area code, like the rest of Northern Ireland is 028. However all local 8-digit subscriber numbers are found in the form 92xx-xxxx. Before the Big Number Change in 2000, the STD code for Lisburn and its surrounding area was 01846.
The main hospital in the city is the Lagan Valley Hospital, which provides Accident and Emergency services to the area. The hospital lost its acute services in 2006 and is set to lose maternity services in 2009. Residents now must travel to Belfast for acute surgery. Primary care in the area is provided by the Lisburn Health Centre, which opened in 1977.[7] The city lies within the South Eastern Health and Social Care Board area, formerly known as Down and Lisburn Trust.
Sir Richard Wallace made quite an impact on Lisburn. His bequests include the Wallace Park and Wallace High School. In 1872 he donated drinking fountains, known as Wallace fountains, two of which can still be seen near the cricket pitch in Wallace Park, another in front of Lisburn Linen Museum in Bow Street and another in Castle Gardens. Wallace was created baronet in 1871 and was Member of Parliament for Lisburn from 1873 to 1885. Super-middleweight boxer Brian Magee is from Lisburn.
Renowned linguist, academic and author David Crystal OBE was born in Lisburn in 1941.
Plymouth Argyle midfielder Damien Johnson was born here.
Singer-songwriter Duke Special was born in Lisburn in 1971.
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Lisburn [1] is split between County Antrim and County Down in Northern Ireland. It has a nice square and plenty of the usual British shops. On the square there is a tourist office with very helpful staff.
Along with Newry, Lisburn received its Royal Charter as part of the Queen's Jubilee celebrations of 2002.
Lisburn is about ten minutes drive south west of Belfast.
Lisburn has a great theatre, the Riverside.
Lisburn is a city with a great reputation for shopping. The city centre's main shopping destination is "Bow Street Mall"
The shopping centre, which has seen major expansions and changes since 2000 has more than 60 shops, and 6 food outlets, situated in the centre's "food court". Stores such as "HMV", "Menarys" "JD" "Lfestyle Sports" and "JJB"
There are bed and breakfasts - one is within a minute's walk of the city's main shopping centre, Bow Street Mall. There are no hotels.
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LISBURN, a market town, and cathedral city of Co. Antrim, Ireland, situated in a beautiful and fertile district on the Lagan, and on the Great Northern railway, 8 m. S.S.W. of Belfast. Pop. (1901) 11,461. Christ Church (1622) which possesses a fine octagonal spire, is the cathedral church of the united Protestant dioceses of Down, Connor and Dromore, and contains a monument to Jeremy Taylor, who was bishop of the see. The public park was presented to the town by Sir Richard Wallace (d. 1890), and after his death the castle gardens were also given to the town. The staple manufacture is linen, especially damasks and muslins, originally introduced by Huguenots. There are also bleaching and dyeing works, and a considerable agricultural trade. The town is governed by an urban district council. The ruins of Castle Robin, 2 m. N. of the town, stand on a summit of the White Mountains, and the building dates from the time of Queen Elizabeth. At Drumbo, 3z m. E. of Lisburn, is one of the finest examples of early fortification in Ireland, known as the Giant's Ring, with a cromlech in the centre. Here are also a round tower and the remains of a church ascribed to St Patrick.
In the reign of James Lisburn, which was then known as Lisnegarvy (Gambler's Fort), was an inconsiderable village, but in 1627 it was granted by Charles I. to Viscount Conway, who erected the castle for his residence, and laid the foundation of the prosperity of the town by the introduction of English and Welsh settlers. In November 1641 the town was taken by the insurgents, who on the approach of superior numbers set fire to it. The troops of Cromwell gained a victory near the town in 1648, and the castle surrendered to them in 1650. The church was constituted a cathedral in 1662 by Charles from whom the town received the privilege of returning two members to parliament, but after the Union it returned only one and in 1885 ceased to be a parliamentary borough. Lisburn gives the titles of earl and viscount to the family of Vaughan.
a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Calvados, 30 m. E. of Caen by rail. Pop. (1906) 15,194. Lisieux is prettily situated in the valley of the Touques at its confluence with the Orbiquet. Towers of the 16th century, relics of the old fortifications, remain, and some of the streets, bordered throughout by houses of the 14th, 15th and r6th centuries, retain their medieval aspect. The church of St Peter, formerly a cathedral, is reputed to be the first Gothic church built in Normandy. Begun in the latter half of the 12th century it was completed in the 13th and 16th centuries. There is a lantern-tower over the crossing and two towers surmount the west façade, one only of which has a spire, added towards the end of the 16th century. In the interior there is a Lady-Chapel, restored in the 15th century by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, one of the judges of Joan of Arc. The church of St Jacques (late 15th century) contains beautiful glass of the Renaissance, some remarkable stalls and old frescoes, and a curious picture on wood, restored in 1681. The church of St Desir (18th century) once belonged to a Benedictine abbey. The old episcopal palace near the cathedral is now used as a court-house, museum, library and prison, and contains a beautiful hall called the salle doree. Lisieux is the seat of a sub-prefect, and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of arts and manufactures, a board of trade arbitrators and a communal college. Its manufactures of woollens are important, and bleaching, wool and flax-spinning, tanning, brewing, timbersawing, metal-founding, and the manufacture of machinery, hosiery and boots and shoes are carried on; there is trade in grain, cattle and cheese.
In the time of Caesar, Lisieux, under the name of Noviomagus, was the capital of the Lexovii. Though destroyed by the barbarians, by the 6th century it had become one of the most important towns of Neustria. Its bishopric, suppressed in 1802, dates from that period. In 877 it was pillaged by the Normans; and in 911 was included in the duchy of Normandy by the treaty of St Clair-sur-Epte. Civil authority was exercised by the bishop as count of the town. In 1136 Geoffrey Plantagenet laid siege to Lisieux, which had taken the side of Stephen of Blois. The town was not reduced till 1141, by which time both it and the neighbourhood had been brought to the direst extremities of famine. In 1152 the marriage of Henry II. of England to Eleanor of Guienne, which added so largely to his dominions, was celebrated in the cathedral. Thomas a Becket took refuge here, and some vestments used by him are shown in the hospital chapel. Taken by Philip Augustus and reunited to France in 1203, the town was a frequent subject of dispute between the contending parties during the Hundred Years' War, the religious wars, and those of the League.
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| | Office of Public Sector Information - Change of District Name (Lisburn Borough) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 |
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