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CLOGHNAKILTY

Volume 7 · 67 words · 1842 Edition

or CLONAKILTY, a market, post, and fair-town of Ireland, in the county of Cork. It is in a rapid state of improvement, the annual value of sales of linen and yarn effected here amounting to upwards of £30,000. There are here a permanent barrack, an endowed classical school, two subscription and two endowed poor-schools. It is distant 198 miles south-west from Dublin. The population amounts to 4033.