a town of Ireland, county of Wicklow, on the river Slaney, 37 miles S.S.W. of Dublin. It formerly carried on a manufacture of linen and woollen clothes, but its trade is now confined to bleaching. Here an action took place in 1798 between the royalists and the insurgents, in which the latter were defeated. It has the remains of an ancient Cistercian abbey and a castle. Before the Union it returned two members to the Irish parliament. Pop. in 1851, 1572.

BALUÉ, JEAN, a French cardinal who raised himself from a very mean station to dignity and honours. He became almoner to Louis XI, and eventually obtained the whole management of the government; but being detected in a treasonable correspondence with the Duke of Bourgogne, he was shut up by Louis in an iron cage eight feet square, a punishment he richly merited by his crimes. On his release, however, eleven years afterwards, he was loaded with honours by Sixtus IV. He died at Ancona in 1491.