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INNISKILLING

Volume 12 · 88 words · 1842 Edition

INNISKILLEN, a borough town of Ireland, in the county of Fermanagh, and province of Ulster, situated between three lakes. It is about twenty-four miles east of Ballyshannon, and seventy-nine north-west of Dublin, 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, and of their number, a regiment of dragoons, bearing the title of the Inniskillen Dragoons, was mostly formed. This regiment is the sixth of dragoons in the British army.