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Lisburn (Northern Ireland)

LC control no.n 82161769
Descriptive conventionsrda
Geographic headingLisburn (Northern Ireland)
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Geographic subdivision usageNorthern Ireland--Lisburn
Variant(s)Lisburn, Ire.
Lisburn (Northern Ireland : District)
Lios na gCearrbhach (Northern Ireland)
Lisburn City (Northern Ireland)
Borough of Lisburn (Northern Ireland)
Lisburn Borough (Northern Ireland)
Lisnagarvy (Northern Ireland)
Lisnagarvey (Northern Ireland)
Lisnegarvy (Northern Ireland)
Lisnegarvey (Northern Ireland)
Lisnegarvagh (Northern Ireland)
Lisnagarvagh (Northern Ireland)
Associated countryGreat Britain Northern Ireland
Associated placeAntrim (Northern Ireland : County)
Belfast Metropolitan Area (Northern Ireland)
Lisburn and Castlereagh (Northern Ireland)
Found inBrett, C. H. B. List of historic buildings, groups of buildings, buildings of architectural importance in the Borough of Lisburn, 1969.
Municipal yr. bk., 1981 (Lisburn, in Lisburn Borough)
Lisburn City Council www site, 5 Sept. 2003 (Lisburn, city, district)
GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 54°31ʹ24ʺN 006°02ʹ07ʺW)
GEOnet, 28 July 2017 (Lisburn (approved); variant: Lios na gCearrbhach; geopolitical entity name: United Kingdom; first-order administrative division name: Lisburn and Castlereagh; 54° 30ʹ 36ʺ N, 006° 02ʹ 25ʺ W; 54.50991 [N], -6.0404 [W]; seat of a first-order administrative division; also lists Lisburn (approved and short), Lisburn City (approved), with variant Lisburn District, as a historical first-order administrative division)
Logainm.ie (Placenames database of Ireland), 28 July 2017 (Lios na gCearrbhach; validated name (Irish); Lisburn (English); town; county: Aontroim / Antrim; barony: Mása Ríona Uachtarach / Massereene Upper; civil parish: Blaris; townland: Lisnagarvy; latitude: 54.5086511025847000; longitude: -6.0544559064929597)
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Wikipedia, 28 July 2017 (Lisburn; a city in Northern Ireland; on the River Lagan, which forms the boundary between County Antrim and County Down; part of the Belfast Metropolitan Area; one of the constituent cities that make up the Dublin-Belfast corridor region; formerly a borough, granted city status in 2002; the administrative centre of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council area; originally known as Lisnagarvy (also spelled Lisnagarvey, Lisnegarvey, Lisnegarvy, Lisnegarvagh, or Lisnagarvagh) after the townland in which it formed, derived from Irish Lios na gCearrbhach, meaning "ringfort of the gamesters/gamblers'"; the modern spelling Lisburn first appears in a January 1662 entry in church records; 54° 30ʹ 43.2ʺ N, 6° 1ʹ 51.6ʺ W; 54.512 [N], -6.031 [W])
Geographic area codee-uk-ni
Associated languageeng
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