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Hillsborough

Cromghlinn

A sandstone column on Monument Road carries a statue above the town’s southern hillside.

Watercolour and fine ink of the tall fluted Downshire column and its small statue on a grassy hillside.
The Downshire Monument above Hillsborough, as photographed in July 2011.
Recorded locationHillsborough54.46103° N · 6.09021° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

gleannglen

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Cromghlinn · Irish · main form
  • Hillsborough · English · main form

Place & story

A memorial above the town

The Downshire Monument was erected in 1848 to commemorate the third Marquess of Downshire. It stands on Monument Field, a hill south of Hillsborough beside Monument Road. A fluted Doric column supports the statue on a circular plinth and square platform. Below, a panelled sandstone base rises from three steps, with the Downshire coat of arms carved on its northern face. The monument combines a classical column with family commemoration on a prominent site beyond the town centre. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Down
Civil parish
Hillsborough
Coordinates
54.46103, -6.09021
Mapped area
2.48 km²
Logainm ID
66393 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

1926 census

This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Hillsborough. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Marquis of Downshire Monument, Monument Road: historic building recordHB19/05/114, surveyed25August2010 · Department for Communities, Historic Environment Division
  3. The Downshire Monument above Hillsborough, County Down illustration: based on a The Marquis of Downshire Memorial Monument, Hillsborough (2) by Albert Bridge. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.