MARYBOROUGH, a town of Ireland, capital of Queen's county, is situated on a small tributary of the Barrow, 50 miles S.W. of Dublin. It is straggling and meanly built, consisting chiefly of one long irregular street
1 For a complete investigation of this point, see Lardner's Letter to Jonas Hanway, Esq., Works, vol. v., 4to. ed. See also Macknight's Harmony, sect. 43.
Maryland, on the Dublin and Limerick road. It has, however, several good public buildings, among which are,—the parish church, a Roman Catholic chapel, several Dissenting chapels, court-house and prison, barracks, infirmary, and lunatic asylum. It returned two members to the Irish parliament till the Union, when it was disfranchised. Pop. (1851) 2079.