Hillhall
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Hillhall is a small Unionist village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, near Lisburn. In the 2001 Census it had a population of about 100people. It lies within the Lagan Valley Regional Park and the Lisburn City Council area. Hillhall Presbyterian Church is a listed building.
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The ancestors of writer Iris Murdoch were rural stock who farmed for seven generations at Hillhall, where they worked about fifty acres leased from the Marquis of Downshire and a further ten acres from the Hertford estate. Today the family burial plot remains inside Derriaghy Parish Churchyard.
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- NI Neighbourhood Information System
- Draft Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan 2015
- Iris Murdoch and Hillhall
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