184 HILLSBOROUGH. 



Many weavers families have tea for break- 

 fail. Rents rather lower than 4 or 5 years 

 ago. 



Leaving Warrenftown, reached Hillfbo- 

 fough that night; patTed thro' Dromore, a 

 lniferable neit of dirty mnd cabbins. Lord 

 Hillfborough has marked the approach to his 

 town by many fmall plantations on the tops 

 t>f the hills, through which the road leads. 

 The inn of his building is a noble one for 

 Ireland. 



July 27th, walked to the church built at 

 the expenfe of Lord Hillfborough ; there are 

 few fuch in Ireland. It is a very handfbmc 

 Hone edifice, properly ornamented, and has 

 a lofty fpire, which is a fine object, to the 

 whole country. The form of the church is a 

 erofs, the body of it 160 feet long, and the 

 crofs-ifle 120. The ftep to the communion 

 table is of one ftone out of his lordihip's 

 quarry, 21 feet long, and 2 broad. To the 

 improvements — the lake, woods, and lawn 

 are pretty j but a well built and flouriiriing 

 town in the hands of an abfentee, whofe great 

 aim is to improve and adorn it, does him morq 

 credit than twenty domains. 



Reached Lif^urn, and waited on the bifhop 

 of Downe, who was fo obliging as to fend 

 for an intelligent linen-draper, to give me 

 fuch particulars as I wanted of the manufac- 

 ture in that neighbourhood. About this place 



