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Encyclopedia Britannica



DROMORE

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 589 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DROMORE , a market town of Co. Down, Ireland, in the west parliamentary division, on the upper Lagan, 172 m. S.W. of Belfast by a branch of the
Great
  Northern railway. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901) 2307. It is in the linen manufacturing
district
 . The town is of high antiquity, and was the seat of a bishopric, which grew out of an abbey of Canons Regular attributed to St Colman in the 6th century, and was united in 1842 to Down and
Connor
 . The town and
cathedral
  were wholly destroyed during the insurrection of 1641, and the present church was built by
Bishop
 
Jeremy
  Taylor in 1661, who is buried here, as also is
Thomas
 
Percy
 , another famous
bishop
  of the diocese, who laid out the fine grounds of the palace. Remains of a castle and earthworks are to be seen, together with a large
rath
  or encampment known as the
Great
  Fort. The town gives its name to a Roman Catholic diocese.


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