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  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  GALLEN or GILLEN	Offaly	Ireton in the parliamentary war; the last male representative of this family, Thomas Coghlan, Esq., M. P. for the borough of Banagher, died in 1790. A monastery was founded here in 490 by St. Canoe, or Mocanoc, which continued to flourish till 820, when it was burnt by Felim McCroimhain; and after its restoration was occupied by some monks from Wales, who founded in it a celebrated school, from which circumstance it is supposed to have derived its name. Though repeatedly plundered and destroyed by fire, it subsisted till the dissolution, when the site and lands were granted	Lewis:Ireland
  GOWRAN	Kilkenny	Ireton soon after assembled here, where they were joined by those of Hewson, on their march to besiege Kilkenny. The town, which is the joint property of Viscount Clifden and W. Bayly, Esq., contains 193 houses, many of which have been recently rebuilt, and other improvements have also taken place. There is a flour-mill; a constabulary police force has been established here; and fairs are held on March 8th, May 9th, Aug. 10th, Oct. 6th, and Dec. 8th, but the market has been discontinued. By the charter of Jas. I. the corporation consists of a portreeve, 12 chief burgesses	Lewis:Ireland
  HIGHGATE	Middlesex	wood; and many other sovereigns and distinguished persons have halted here, or passed through, on their way to the north. Many travellers used, at taverns here, to enjoy a curious kind of local hospitality, and to swear, in connexion with it, a curious burlesque oath. Sir Richard Baker, the chronicler, Andrew Marvell, the poet, Sir Thomas Cornwallis, the comptroller of Queen Mary's household, General Ireton	Imperial
  Ireton Wood	Derbyshire	Ireton Wood . township, Kirk Ireton par., derbyshire, 3 miles SW. of Wirksworth, 815 ac., pop. 11s.	Bartholomew
  IRETON-WOOD	Derbyshire	IRETON-WOOD , a township in Kirk-Ireton parish, Derby; 4½ miles SSW of Wirksworth. Real property, £1, 290. Pop., 156. Houses	Imperial
  KILCORNAN	Limerick	Ireton, by whom it was garrisoned for Cromwell. The parish comprises 9637 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act; the lands towards the Shannon are fertile and under good cultivation, but towards the south are much encumbered with stones scattered in every direction, and with portions of rock rising above the surface; they are, notwithstanding, well fenced and drained, and together form one of the most fertile and best-cultivated districts in the South of Ireland. The principal seats are Castletown, the elegant residence of J. Waller, Esq., beautifully situated in a richly wooded	Lewis:Ireland
  KILKENNY	Kilkenny	KILKENNY , a city and, including Irishtown, a county of itself, and the seat of the diocese of Ossory, locally in	Lewis:Ireland
  KILMACOMOGUE	Cork	KILMACOMOGUE , a parish, partly in the Western Division of the barony of EAST CARBERY, and partly in the Eastern Division	Lewis:Ireland
  KNOCKANE	Kerry	Ireton during the parliamentary war: it is situated about a mile from the Lower Lake of Killarney, on a steep bank rising from the river Laune, and in the midst of a thickly wooded	Lewis:Ireland
  LICHFIELD	Derbyshire Nottinghamshire Shropshire Staffordshire	Ireton, and Middleton. The deanery of Condover contains the rectories of A cton-Burnel, Berrington, Cound, Frodesley, Harley, Kenley, Pitchford, Sheinton, Smethcote, and Stapleton; the vicarage of Condover; and the p. curacies of Cressage, Dorrington, Langley, Lebotwood, and Longnor. The deanery of Edgmond contains the rectories of Bolas, Chetwynd, Edgniond, Hinstock, Kinnersley, Longford, Preston-on-Wildmoor, and Waters-Upton; the vicarages of Lilleshall and Wrockwardine-Wood	Imperial
  LIMERICK	Limerick	LIMERICK , a city and county of itself, situated on the river Shannon, locally in the county of Limerick (of which	Lewis:Ireland
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  MACROOM, or MACROMP	Cork	MACROOM , or MACROMP, a market and post-town, and a parish, in the barony of WEST MUSKERRY, county of CORK	Lewis:Ireland
  OXFORD	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Wiltshire	OXFORD , a city and a university in Oxfordshire, partly also in Berks, and a diocese comprehending nearlyall Oxfordshire and Berks	Imperial
  SLIGO	Sligo	SLIGO (County of), a maritime county of the province of CONNAUGHT, bounded on the east by Leitrim, on the north	Lewis:Ireland
  WATERFORD	Waterford	WATERFORD , a seaport, city and county of itself, and the seat of a diocese, locally in the county of WATERFORD	Lewis:Ireland

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