[3] The new building was designed by William Raffles Brown in the Italianate style, built in rubble masonry and red brick at a cost of £2,300 and was completed in 1868.

[6] In late 1962, an audience of 1,200 crammed into the main hall to hear a speech by the future First Minister, Ian Paisley, in which he denounced the New English Bible as a "perversion".

[10] After the Ivy Lodge Police Barracks were badly damaged in a bomb attack in November 1973,[11] parts of the town hall were temporarily made available to the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

[13] In July 1997, a plaque commemorating the life of Rifleman William McFadzean of the Royal Irish Rifles, who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions at Thiepval Wood in March 1916 during the First World War, was unveiled outside the town hall.

[14] Works of art in the town hall include a portrait by an unknown artist of the 3rd Lord Lurgan[15] and a bronze bust by Jerome Connor of the Irish writer, George William Russell.