[3] It was designed by Thomas Turner in the Italianate style and built in ashlar stone by McLaughlin & Harvey at a cost of £4,147, with the majority of the funds again coming from The Honourable The Irish Society.

[4] Its completion coincided with the 1859 Ulster revival: "nearly one hundred persons agonised in mind through conviction of sin, and entirely prostrate in body, were borne into the building to obtain shelter" on the day of its first public opening, 9 June 1859.

[1] The unionist politician, Hugh T. Barrie, became the first person to sign the Ulster Covenant at the town hall in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill introduced by the British Government in 1912.

[6] A stained glass window, depicting four local scenes, which was made by Campbell Brothers Belfast to commemorate the tercentenary of The Honourable The Irish Society, was installed in the town hall in 1913.

[4] On 13 November 1992 the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a 500 pounds (230 kg)[10] van bomb in the town centre: substantial property damage was caused, leading to several major buildings being demolished, but no one was killed.