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Clogher

(Encyclopedia)Clogher klŏkhˈər [key], town, Co. Tyrone, central Northern Ireland, on the Blackwater Rive...

Kilmainham

(Encyclopedia)Kilmainham kĭlmānˈəm [key], suburb of Dublin, Co. Dublin, E Republic of Ireland. The commander of the British forces in Ireland had his headquarters in Kilmainham. Charles Stewart Parnell was impr...

Monck, Charles Stanley, 4th Viscount

(Encyclopedia)Monck, Charles Stanley, 4th Viscount mŭngk [key], 1819–94, governor-general of Canada, b. Ireland. An Irish peer, he was elected (1852) to the British House of Commons as a Liberal and was (1855–...

Muckross

(Encyclopedia)Muckross, Republic of Ireland: see Killarney. ...

Queenstown

(Encyclopedia)Queenstown, Republic of Ireland: see Cóbh. ...

Aghrim

(Encyclopedia)Aghrim, Republic of Ireland: see Aughrim. ...

An Uaimh

(Encyclopedia)An Uaimh, Republic of Ireland: see Navan. ...

Dunleary

(Encyclopedia)Dunleary, Republic of Ireland: see Dún Laoghaire. ...

Kells

(Encyclopedia)Kells, Republic of Ireland: see Ceanannus Mór. ...

Boyne

(Encyclopedia)Boyne, river, c.70 mi (110 km) long, rising in the Bog of Allen, Co. Kildare, E Republic of Ireland, and flowing NE through Co. Meath, past Trim, to the Irish Sea near Drogheda. Salmon is caught in th...