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    Place name County Entry Source
    CARRICKFERGUS Antrim CARRICKFERGUS , a sea-port, borough, market-and post-town, and parish, and a county of itself, locally in the county Lewis:Ireland
    DUBLIN Dublin DUBLIN , the metropolis of Ireland, and a city and county of itself, in the province of LEINSTER, situated in 53 Lewis:Ireland
    Dundee Angus Dundee, a town and a parish, or group of parishes on the southern border of Forfarshire. The town stands chiefly Groome
    Edinburghshire or Midlothian Midlothian Edinburghshire or Midlothian, a maritime county in the eastern part of the southern division of Scotland, is bounded N by Groome
    Glasgow Lanarkshire
    Renfrewshire    		 Glasgow, the commercial and manufacturing capital of Scotland, and, in point of wealth, population, and importance, the second city of Groome
    Inverness Inverness Shire Inverness, a market town, a seaport; a royal burgh, the county town of Inverness-shire, and the chief town in Groome
    Laurencekirk Kincardineshire farms which adjoin the parish of that name. A small portion, Blackiemuir and Haddo, belonged at an early date to the priory of St Andrews; various grants of the lands were made to the abbey of Arbroath; and the rest was composed chiefly of royal lands. The western boundary is within 1 mile of the ancient castle of Kincardine, once a favourite residence of the Scottish kings; and old charters show that the early destination of many of the lands was the result of this proximity to the abode of royalty Groome
    Leith Midlothian Leith (anc. Let or Inverlet ), the sixth largest town in Scotland, a seaport, a police and parliamentary burgh, and seat Groome
    MAN, or ISLE of MAN the Isle of Man royalties of mines and quarries, lord's rent, and £500 of the commuted tythes; and amounts to somewhat more than £32,000 a year. The expenditure comprises about £8,000 on that civil establishment, about £3,900 in the customs department, and £2,300 for public works; and the balance goes to the consolidated fund of the United Kingdom as interest on £416,114 paid in 1825, to the fourth Duke of Athole, for all his rights and interest in the island. The postal department is independent of the local revenne arrangements Imperial
    Oban Argyll farming. In 1773 Mrs Grant of Laggan visited it and mentioned it in the first of her Letters from the Mountains. In the same year Dr Johnson and Boswell were ferried over from Mull to Oban, and spent a night there. In 1786 the Government Fishery Board erected Oban into a fishing-station; but the fishing proved unproductive, and the station was abandoned. Its subsequent commercial progress has been already described in connection with its industries. In 1809 Oban became the headquarters of a militia regiment, 1200 strong, raised in the district of Lorn, and disbanded about 1813. Sir Walter Groome
    Peebles Peebles Shire farm of Eshiels. Other antiquities in the town and parish are the following. The ancient Cross of Peebles, first erected in he Old Town, and afterwards removed to the High Street, was given to Sir John Hay, Bart., in 1807, and set up by him at Kingsmeadows. In 1859 it was restored to the town, and stands now in the court of the Chambers Institution. According to the writer of the New Statistical Account of the parish, ` the cross was a work of great antiquity, having been erected by one of the Frasers of Neidpath Castle before the time Groome
    Renfrew Renfrewshire royalty of the burgh was very extensive, covering an area of nearly 5 square miles, but the boundaries of the municipal and parliamentary burgh are much more confined. The latter line starts from the Clyde and passes up Pudzeoch Burn to Mill Burn Bridge, thence in a straight line S, taking in part of Govan parish, to the Mill Burn about 1 / 6 mile farther up. From this it strikes straight north-westward to a point on the road near Longcroft Cottage, and then N by E straight back to the Clyde. Municipal affairs are managed by a provost Groome
    ROSCOMMON Roscommon ROSCOMMON (County of), an inland county of the province of CONNAUGHT, bounded on the north by the county of Leitrim Lewis:Ireland
    ROYALTY Lincolnshire ROYALTY , an extra-parochial farm in Boston district, Lincoln; near Swineshead. Imperial
    Royalty Farm Lincolnshire Royalty Farm , uninhabited par., Lincolnshire, near Swineshead. Bartholomew
    Rutherglen Lanarkshire Rutherglen, a royal and parliamentary burgh on the N side of the parish just described, and adjoining the Clyde. It Groome
    TIPPERARY Tipperary TIPPERARY , (County of), an inland county of the province of MUNSTER, bounded on the east by the King's and Lewis:Ireland
    WATERFORD Waterford WATERFORD (County of), a maritime county of the province of MUNSTER, bounded on the west by that of Cork; on 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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