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RATHDOWNEY

Volume 18 · 63 words · 1860 Edition

a market-town of Ireland, Queen's County, on an affluent of the Nore, 19 miles S.W. of Maryborough. It has a good parish church, Methodist and Roman Catholic chapels, two schools, a barrack, and a dispensary. In the parish there are, besides other remains, those of an abbey and of three castles. A brewery and a boulting-mill are the only manufactories. Pop. (1851) 1192.