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Lisburn (sh)




Town (pop., 1991: 42,110), seat of Lisburn district (pop., 2001: 108,694), Northern Ireland.

Located on the River Lagan southwest of Belfast, it was a small village known as Lisnagarvey before English, Scots, and Welsh settled there in the 1620s as part of the Plantation of Ulster scheme. It later attracted French linen workers who introduced Dutch looms and reorganized the Ulster linen industry; the town is still an important linen-manufacturing centre. The district was created in 1973.