Editing Lisburn (section)

===Early town===
Lisburn's original site was a fort located north of modern-day Wallace Park.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lisburnmuseum.com/collections/origins-name-lisburn-lios-na-gcearrbhach-lisnagarvey-mean/ |title=The origins of the name Lisburn - Irish Linen Centre &#124; |access-date=23 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123204028/http://www.lisburnmuseum.com/collections/origins-name-lisburn-lios-na-gcearrbhach-lisnagarvey-mean/ |archive-date=23 November 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>  In 1609 [[James I of England|James I]] granted Sir Fulke Conway, a Welshman of [[Normans|Norman]] descent,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/linen_and_the_lambeg_drum.htm|title=Land of Linen and the Lambeg Drum – Lisburn.com|publisher=James & Darryl Collins|access-date=23 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704050122/http://www.lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/linen_and_the_lambeg_drum.htm|archive-date=4 July 2010|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lisburn.com/books/glenavy_past_present/glenavy_past-1.html|title=Glenavy Past and Present – Lisburn.com|publisher=James & Darryl Collins|access-date=23 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517153212/http://www.lisburn.com/books/Glenavy_past_present/glenavy_past-1.html|archive-date=17 May 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> the lands of Killultagh in southwest County Antrim.

In 1611 [[George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes]] remarked: "In our travel from Dromore towards Knockfargus, we saw in Kellultagh upon Sir Fulke Conway’s lands a house of cagework in hand and almost finished, where he intends to erect a bawn of brick in a place called Lisnagarvagh. He has built a fair timber bridge over the river of Lagan near the house."<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/40491941|title=Carew's report on the Voluntary Works in Ulster, 1611|first=Ian|last=Montgomery|date=1 January 2019|journal=Directory of Irish Family History Research|access-date=27 January 2022}}</ref> In 1622 the first impressions of Sir Fulke's brother and heir, Edward Conway, was of  "a curious place ... Greater storms are not in any place nor greater serenities: foul ways, boggy ground, pleasant fields, water brooks, rivers full of fish, full of game, the people in their attire, language, fashion: barbarous. In their entertainment free and noble."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Craig|first=W. I.|date=1960|title=Presbyterianism in Lisburn from the Seventeenth Century|url=http://lisburn.com/books/presbyterianism_lisburn/presbyterian1.htm#CHAPTER%204|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-09|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=17 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117084704/http://www.lisburn.com/books/presbyterianism_lisburn/presbyterian1.htm#CHAPTER%204}}</ref>

Management of the Conways' Irish estate fell largely to George Rawdon, a Yorkshire man, who laid out the streets of Lisburn as they are today: Market Square, Bridge Street, Castle Street and Bow Street. He had a [[manor house]] built on what is now Castle Gardens, and in 1623, a church on the site of the current cathedral. In 1628, [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] granted a charter for a weekly market, which is still held in the town every Tuesday.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hanna|first=John|url=http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=283|title=Old Lisburn|publisher=Stenlake Publishing|year=2002|isbn=978-1-84033-227-8|location=Catrine, Ayrshire|page=3|access-date=26 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029211836/http://www.stenlake.co.uk/books/view_book.php?ref=283|archive-date=29 October 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> To populate the town, Rawdon, hostile to the Presbyterian Scots already moving into the area, brought over [[English people|English]] and [[Welsh people|Welsh]] settlers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lisburn.com/history/history_lisburn/george_radwon_and_lisburn.html|title=George Rawdon and Lisburn|first=George|last= McBratney|publisher=Lisburn.com|access-date=21 November 2022}}</ref>

In 1641 the Irish, rising in the first instance against English, and not Scottish, settlers,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stevenson|first=David|title=Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confderates|publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation|year=1981|isbn=9781903688465|location=Belfast|pages=83–85}}</ref> were driven back three times from the town. A herd four hundred head of cattle driven against the gates failed to batter them down. The town nonetheless burned.<ref name="Bardon">{{cite book|last1=Bardon|first1=Jonathan|title=A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes|date=2008|publisher=Gill & Macmillan|isbn=9780717146499|location=Dublin|pages=190}}</ref> In 1649 the town was secured by forces loyal to [[Oliver Cromwell|Cromwell]]'s [[Commonwealth of England|English Commonwealth]], routing an army of Scots [[Covenanters]], and their [[Cavalier|Royalist]] allies, in the [[Battle of Lisnagarvey]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bennett |first1=Martyn |title=The Civil Wars Experienced: Britain and Ireland, 1638-1661 |date=1999 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415159029|pages=161–162}}</ref>

The Presbyterians, despite their loyalty to the [[British Crown|Crown]], upon its [[Restoration of Charles II|Restoration]] continued to be penalised as "dissenters" from the [[Church of Ireland|established Anglican church]], the [[Church of Ireland]]. It was not until 1670 that they were permitted a meeting house in town, and that had to be of "perishable materials [...] dark, narrow and devoid of any pretensions to art and comfort.<ref name=":2" /> Their support for [[William III of England|King William]] (whose forces wintered in the town) and the [[Williamite War in Ireland|"Protestant cause" in 1690]] likewise failed to win them equal standing. Like the Roman Catholics, who had to wait another 60 years for a "Mass House", Presbyterians were discouraged from exerting their presence. The First Presbyterian Church built in 1768 was screened (until 1970) from Market Square by shops.<ref>{{Cite web|title=First Lisburn Presbyterian Church Lisburn {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/first-lisburn-presbyterian.html|access-date=2021-05-09|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510142414/http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/first-lisburn-presbyterian.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The town was destroyed once again in 1707: the accidental conflagration giving rise to the town's motto ''Ex igne resurgam'' --"Out of the fire I shall arise". Conway's [[Manor house|Manor House]] was not restored (part of the surrounding wall and its gateway with the date 1677 engraved still stands on the south and east side of Castle Gardens). The Anglican church, designated by [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] as [[Christ Church Cathedral, Lisburn|Christ Church Cathedral]] in 1662, was rebuilt retaining the tower and the surviving galleries in the nave. The distinctive octagonal spire was added in 1804.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://lisburn.com/churches/Lisburn-churches/lisburn-cathedral.html| title = Lisburn Cathedral|publisher=Lisburn.com|accessdate = 21 November 2022}}</ref>

One of the few buildings spared in the fire of 1707 was the [[Friends meeting house|Friend's Meeting House]]. [[Quakers|Quakerism]] had been brought to the town in 1655 by a veteran of Cromwell's army, William Edmundson. In 1766, a prosperous linen merchant, John Hancock, endowed what is now the grammar school known as [[Friends' School, Lisburn|Friends' School Lisburn.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://www.lisburnquakers.org/what-we-do|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Lisburn Quakers|language=en-US|archive-date=10 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510001950/https://www.lisburnquakers.org/what-we-do|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[John Wesley]] first visited Lisburn in 1756, and thereafter he returned to preach biannually until 1789. The first Wesleyan Methodist Preaching House was established in the town in 1772.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wesley's links with Lisburn are strong {{!}} Lisburn.com|url=http://lisburn.com/history/memories/memories-2004/wesleys-links_with_lisburn.html|access-date=2021-06-06|website=lisburn.com|archive-date=24 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024122837/http://lisburn.com/history/memories/memories-2004/wesleys-links_with_lisburn.html|url-status=live}}</ref>