INNISKILLING, a borough, market, fair, and post town of Ireland, in the county of Permanach and province of Ulster, lying between three lakes. It is about 24 miles east of Ballyshannon, and 79 north-west of Dublin. It sends two members to parliament; patron Lord Inniskilling, this place giving title of viscount to the family of Cole. Its inhabitants distinguished themselves in several considerable engagements in the wars of Ireland at the revolution, out of which a regiment of dragoons, bearing the title of the Inniskilliners, was mostly formed. They form the 6th regiment
Innocent's Day
Inoculation.
ment of dragoons in the British army. It has a barracks for three companies of foot.
INNOCENT'S DAY, a festival of the Christian church, observed on December 28th, in memory of the massacre of the innocent children by the command of Herod king of Judea. See Jesus Christ; and Jews, no 24. par. ult. The Greek church in their kalendar, and the Abyssinians of Ethiopia in their offices, commemorate 14,000 infants on this occasion.