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CASTLE-ISLAND

Volume 6 · 62 words · 1842 Edition

a town of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, pleasantly situated near the river Mang. It possesses a market-house, a parish-church, a Roman Catholic chapel, and a sessions-house. The castle, which gives name to the place, was erected in 1226, and was frequently the subject of violent contention. It is distant 197 miles south-west of Dublin. The population amounts to about 1600.