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assisted by a recorder (who is also town-clerk), a Serjeant-
at-mace, and inferior officers. The sovereign is annually
elected from the burgesses, and with his deputy is coro-
ner, and, during his year of office and for one year after,
justice of peace within the borough; the burgesses are
chosen, as vacancies occur, by a majority of their own
body, by whom the recorder and other officers are ap-
pointed, and the freemen admitted by favour only. The
borough returned two members to the Irish parliament
till the Union, when the elective franchise was abolished,
and the £15,000 awarded as compensation was paid to
Arthur, Marquess of Downshire. A borough court and
court of record were formerly held, but have been long
discontinued. Courts leet and baron are held every
three weeks by the seneschal of the Marquess, for the
manor of Hillsborough with jurisdiction to the amount
of £2 extending over upwards of 26,000 acres in the
parishes of Hillsborough, Blaris, Anahilt, Dromara,
Dromore, and Moira; and a court of record for the
same manor, for pleas to the amount of £200. Petty
sessions are held here every Wednesday, and the quarter
sessions for the county alternately here and at New-
townards. The court-house, a handsome building of
freestone in the centre of the market-place, was erected
by the present Marquess: a district bridewell has been
built under the provision of an act of the 7th of Geo.
IV.; and a chief constabulary police force has been
stationed in the town.
The parish comprises, according to the Ordnance
survey, 8484¾ statute acres, of which 62½ are water and
the remainder good arable and pasture land, the princi-
pal part of which is under tillage and in a high state of
cultivation. Hillsborough Castle, the seat of the Mar-
quess of Downshire, situated at the west end of the
town, is in a demesne richly embellished with wood; in
the grounds is a fine lake, and the scenery is pleasingly
diversified and highly picturesque.- At the east side of
the town is the park, enclosing a space of 1500 statute
acres, surrounded by a wall: it also is beautifully
situated, richly wooded, and has a fine lake. Within it
is the fort above-mentioned, erected by Sir Arthur Hill,
in the centre of the west side of which is a castellated
mansion, supposed to have been built as a residence for
the constable. King William slept in it when his army
was encamped in the neighbourhood. It is entered by
an arched gateway, which is the only passage into the
fort except a sally-port in the eastern side. It was
from this place that King William issued his declara-
tion to grant the Regium Donum to the Presbyterian
ministers of Ulster. The other seats are Culcavy Cot-
tage, the residence of H. Bradshaw, Esq.; Eglantine,
of Capt. Moore; Carnbane, of H. Moreland, Esq.;
Shamrock Vale, of Lieut. Clarke, R.N.; and Blaris
House, of Col. Hawkeshaw. The living is a rectory,
in the diocese of Down, formerly the head of a union
comprising also the parishes of Drumbeg, Drumboe,
and Kilclief, together constituting the corps of the
archdeaconry of Down, but since the dissolution of the
union under the Church Temporalities’ act, consequent
on the demise of the Rev. R. M. Mant, in 1834, it has
solely formed the corps of the archdeaconry: the tithes
amount to £550. The glebe-house is a handsome resi-
dence, and the glebe comprises-22 acres, subject to a
rent of £31. 7. 8.; attached to the archdeaconry are also
235 acres of glebe in the parish of Kilclief. The church,
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a spacious cruciform structure in the later English style,
with square embattled towers at the extremities of the
transepts, and a similar tower at the west end sur-
mounted by an octagonal spire, was erected in 1774, at
the sole expense of the late Marquess. The interior is
finely arranged, the windows are embellished with
stained glass, and a powerful and sweet-toned organ was
presented by the late Marquess, and has been enlarged
and much enriched in tone by the present Marquess, by
whom also the church is kept in repair, and the salaries
of the organist, choristers and vergers paid. In the
R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union or
district of Lisburn, and has a chapel in the town.
There are also places of worship for Presbyterians, the
Society of Friends, and Moravians. Nearly 300 child-
ren are taught in five public schools, of which the
parochial schools are supported by the Marquess and
Marchioness of Downshire; and there are four private
schools, in which are about 200 children, and a dis-
pensary. Hillsborough gives the inferior titles of Earl
and Viscount, and Kilwarlin the title of Viscount, to
the Marquess of Downshire.
HILLTOWN, a village, in the parish of CLONDUFF,
barony of UPPER IVEAGH, county of DOWN, and pro-
vince 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 carewhich its noble proprietor, theMarquess of Down-
shire, 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 Car-
quillan. 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.
HOG ISLAND.—See KILRUSH.
HOLLYMOUNT, a post-town, in the parish of KIL-
COMMON, barony of KILMAINE, county of MAYO, and
province of CONNAUGHT, 13¾ miles (S.) from Castlebar,
(on the road to Tuam), and 111½ (W. by N.) from Dub-
lin: the population is included in the return for the
parish. The entrance to the town is very pretty, being
adorned with the handsome parish church and the
beautiful grounds round Hollymount House, the resi-
dence of T. Spencer Lindsey, Esq.; and there are several
other gentlemen’s seats in its vicinity, which are de-
scribed in the article on the parish. Fairs are held on
May 16th and Dec. 11th; and there is a good hotel, a
dispensary, and a school-house built at the expense of
Mr. Lindsey, who supports the school. It is a consta-
bulary police station, and petty sessions are held on
alternate Saturdays.