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QUEEN-G

Volume 17 · 129 words · 1823 Edition

QUEEN-Gold, is a royal duty or revenue belonging to QUEEN'S-County, a division of the province of Leinster in Ireland; so called from the popish Queen Mary, in whose reign it was first made a county by the earl of Sussex, then lord-deputy. It is bounded on the south by Kilkenny and Catherlogh; by King's county on the north and west; part of Kildare and Catherlogh on the east; and part of Tipperary on the west. Its greatest length from north to south is 35 miles, and its breadth near as much; but it is unequal both ways. This country was anciently full of bogs and woods, though now pretty well enclosed and cultivated. The number of inhabitants amounts to 82,000; and it sends two members to the imperial parliament.