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HILLTOWN, a village,
in the parish of CLONDUFF, barony of UPPER IVEAGH, county of DOWN,
and province of ULSTER, 2 miles (S.) from Rathfriland, on the road
from Newry to Downpatrick; containing 39 houses and 170 inhabitants.
It is a handsome village, with a small but
remarkably well kept inn, strikingly indicating the care which its
noble proprietor, the Marquess of Downshire, has bestowed on the
improvement of his estates, and the fidelity with which his lordship's
views have been promoted by his agent, W. E. Reilly, Esq.
In the grant of it to the Hillsborough family
it is called Carquillan. There is a market on Saturday, and a large
fair for cattle and linen yarn on the second Tuesday in every month. |
It is a chief constabulary police station, and
has a good inn. The parish church of Clonduff having been destroyed in
the war of 1641, a church was built here in 1766. It is a large and handsome
edifice with a tower, erected by aid of a gift of £338 from the
late Board of First Fruits, and recently repaired by a grant of £230
from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Here is also the glebe-house, with a glebe of
21 acres; a Presbyterian meeting-house, in connection with the Synod of
Ulster, of the third class; a R. C. chapel, and the parochial school,
for which a house was built in 1824 by the Marquess of Downshire, who
has endowed it with £10 per annum.
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