Hillhall


Hillhall is a townland and non-nucleated village in County Down, Northern Ireland, near Lisburn. In the 2001 Census it had a population of about one hundred people. It lies in the Lagan Valley Regional Park and the Lisburn City Council area. Hillhall Presbyterian Church is a listed building.

People

The ancestors of writer Iris Murdoch farmed at Hillhall for seven generations, they had about leased from the Marquis of Downshire and a further from the Hertford estate. Today the family burial plot can still be found in Derriaghy Parish Churchyard.