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    Place name County Entry Source
    Caithness Caithness Caithness, a maritime county in the extreme NE of the mainland of Scotland, bounded N by the Pentland Firth, E Groome
    CORK Cork CORK (County of), a maritime county of the province of MUNSTER, and the largest in Ireland, bounded on the east Lewis:Ireland
    DONEGAL Donegal may be arranged into two great divisions of mountain and champaign. The latter, which is subdivided into two portions by the Barnesmore mountains, comprises the barony of Raphoe and the maritime parts of that of Tyrhugh, round Ballyshannon and Donegal. The mountain region, comprehending all the remainder of the county, is interspersed with fertile valleys and tracts of good land, especially in the baronies of Kilmacrenan and Ennishowen. The most elevated mountains are Errigal, which, according to the Ordnance survey, rises 2463 feet above the level of the sea; Blue Stack Lewis:Ireland
    DROMARD Sligo May 21st, and August 20th. The principal seats are Tanragoe, the residence of Col. Irwin, a very old mansion which commands remarkably fine views of the bays of Sligo, Donegal, and Killybegs, and of Tellen Head, Benbullen, and Knocknaree; and the glebe-house, of the Rev. J. Stack Lewis:Ireland
    Duirinish or Durinish Inverness Shire stacks ' of Caithness and Shetland, stand off the coast, and figure wildly in the surrounding waters, the most striking and romantic of these being known as Macleod's Maidens. The northern district consists of Vaternish peninsula, and constitutes the quoad sacra parish of Halen; the other districts may Groome
    Dumfries Dumfries Shire Dumfries, a town and a parish on the SW border of Dumfriesshire. A royal and parliamentary burgh, a Seaport - since Groome
    Durness Sutherland Durness, a coast parish of NW Sutherland, containing Durine village, 2 5 / 8 miles SSE of the northernmost point of Groome
    KERRY Kerry may be exported, to be well adapted to a more improved mode of cultivation. The bogs are not confined to the mountainous districts, but occur frequently in large continuous tracts in all parts of the county, and cover an extent of 105,577 acres, exclusively of the small mountain bogs which were not estimated in the general survey of the bogs of Ireland. One species of bog, found chiefly in the barony of Corkaguiney, peculiarly deserves notice: it is called in Irish Meagh Vone, which signifies flat turf. In its natural state it is of a glutinous or saponaceous quality Lewis:Ireland
    KILDALKEY Meath May 14th, Aug. 9th, and Dec. 13th. The principal seats are Carnisle, the residence of W. Allen, Esq.; Kildalkey House, of the Rev. J. O'Connell: Rathcormuck, of T. Potterton, Esq.; Ballinadrimny, of W. Thorogood, Esq.; Balatalion, of T. Potterton, Esq.; Woodtown West, of Miss Read; Clonbarron, of W. Nangle, Esq.; and Moyrath Castle, of H. Potterton, Esq. This castle was built in 1219, by Lord Geoffry de Montemarisco, and was subsequently a seat of the Nugent family, but is now the property of Henry Grattan, Esq. The parish is in the diocese of Meath: the rectory is impropriate 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
    MAY-STACK County Durham MAY-STACK , a quondam natural arch on the coast of Durham; on a reef of low rocks, near the mouth Imperial
    MILFORD HAVEN Pembrokeshire may safely run into it without anchor or cable; it has, in most parts, a depth of from 15 to 19 fathoms,-and, in less favourable parts, a depth of from 6 to 12 fathoms; and it washes, or leads up to the quays of Milford, New Milford, Pembroke, and Haverfordwest. The fleet of Henry II. started from it to conquer Ireland; the French invading army of 12,000 men, in the time of Henry IV., landed at it to support Owen Glendower; and the Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII., disembarked at it on his return from Brittany Imperial
    North British Railway Berwickshire
    Midlothian    		 may best be told in the words of the memoir of that distinguished engineer, published by the Institution of Civil Engineers after his death in 1880:- 'After the floating railway, already described, had come into operation, Mr Bouch's attention was drawn to the desirability of having a more direct connection between the north and south of Scotland, by carrying uninterrupted railway communication across the two estuaries of the Forth and the Tay. Taking the Forth first, besides laying out the scheme for a railway ferry at Queensferry, he projected the Glasgow and North British railway, plans for which were Groome
    Orkney Orkney Orkney, a group of islands and islets of the eastern part of the N-coast of Scotland, and forming a Groome
    Paisley Renfrewshire Paisley, a large parliamentary burgh in the Upper Ward of Renfrewshire and in the NE part of the county. It Groome
    READING Berkshire READING , a town, a district, and a hundred, in Berks. The town stands on the verge of the county, on Imperial
    Shetland Shetland stacks, or groups of columnar masses, at a distance from the cliffs. Such are the rocks to the S of Hillswick Ness [N side of St Magnus Bay], and the strange tower-like pinnacles in the same neighbourhood called the Drenge or Drongs, which, when seen from a distance, look like a small fleet of vessels with spread sails., Farther interesting details of a similar nature may Groome
    St Kilda Inverness Shire may sometimes be effected there. The other islets of the group are uninhabited; but serve as grazing ground for the St Kildans' sheep, and a breeding place for myriads of seafowl. They are the following. The Dune, a precipitous and jagged peaked islet forming the southern horn of the village bay, and only separated from St Kilda by a narrow passage of sea; Soa, or the Sheep Island (1031 feet), divided from the NW extremity of St Kilda by a strait 400 yards across, in which rise 3 lofty needle rocks, or ` stacks Groome
    Sutherland Sutherland may be counted from the summit of Quinag. The western drainage basin is simply a network of small lochs and lochans. The principal sheets of water-which alone it is possible to mention here-are:-(in the northern drainage basin) Loch Airidh na Beinne, W of Kyle of Durness; Loch Hope (12), E of Loch Eriboll; Loch na Seilg and Loch a' Ghabha Dhuibh, high up Ben Hope; Loch an Dithreibh (Deerie), in the glen upward from Kyle of Tongue; Loch Creagach and Loch Laoghal (both 369), in the hollow of the river Borgie; Loch Naver (247) and Lochs Groome
    Winton Castle East Lothian stacks of columned chimneys and in the decorated architraves of its windows, is quite distinguishable from that era. Additions made about 1805 in the English Baronial style were destroyed by fire on 7 May Groome
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