Searching for "ST MAULS"

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    Place name County Entry Source
    Arbroath Angus St Andrews. The abbey was not completed till 1233; and, after the death of Beaton, it felt the blows of the iconoclastic Reformers. Its property then was converted into a temporal lordship in favour of Lord Claude Hamilton, third son of the Duke of Chatelherault; passed soon to the Earl of Dysart; and passed again in the reign of James VI. to Patrick Maule Groome
    Brechin Angus Brechin, a royal and parliamentary burgh and a parish of E Forfarshire. The town stands on the left or northern Groome
    Fowlis-Easter Perthshire Maule, who was succeeded by his son-in-law, Roger of Mortimer. From the latter's descendant, Fowlis passed by marriage (1377) to Sir Andrew Gray of Broxmouth, the first Lord Gray; and by the ninth Lord it was sold, in 1669, to an ancestor of the present proprietor, Keith-Murray of Ochtertyre. Fowlis Castle stands to the S of the village, towards the head of the beautiful Den of Fowlis or Balruddery, a favourite field alike for geologist and botanist. From 200 to 300 years old, it was suffered to go to decay towards the close of last century Groome
    Harlaw Aberdeenshire St James's Eve), between the rebel Highland army of Donald, Lord of the Isles, and the royal forces under the Earl of Mar. Donald, at the head of 10.000 men, overran Ross-shire, marched through Inverness-shire and Moray, acquired accessions to his strength in those districts and in Banffshire, and resolved now to carry into execution a threat he had often made, to burn the town of Aberdeen. He committed great excesses in Strathbogie and in the district of Garioch, which belonged to the Earl of Mar. The inhabitants of Aberdeen were in dreadful alarm at the near Groome
    KILKENNY Kilkenny St. Martin are payable to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In the R. C. divisions the parish of St. Mary is the head of a union or district, comprising also a small portion of St. John's; the parish of St. Patrick is the head of a union, comprising also the parishes of Castleinch and Outrath, and part of St. Canice; the parish of St. John is the head of a union, comprising also Rathcoole, Kilderry, and Kilmadrum; and the parish of St. Canice is the head of a union, comprising also the parish of St. Maul Lewis:Ireland
    MARTIN'S (ST.)   MARTIN'S (ST.) .—See MAUL'S (ST.). Lewis:Ireland
    MAUL'S (ST.) Kilkenny MAUL'S (ST.) , a parish, within the liberties of the city of KILKENNY, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER Lewis:Ireland
    Panbride Angus St Vigeans (detached), SE by the German Ocean, SW by Barry, and W by Monikie. Its utmost length, from NW to SE, is 4 5 / 8 miles; its breadth varies between 9 furlongs and 2¾ miles; and its area is 5506 acres, of which 298 2 / 5 are foreshore and 9 water. Monikie Burn, coming in from Monikie parish, runs 4½ miles south-eastward across the interior to the sea between East and West Haven. Its dell, called Battie's Den, is mostly flanked by steep or mural rocky banks, 20 to 50 feet high, and is spanned Groome
    St Maul's Kilkenny St Maul's , par., in co. and parl. bor. of Kilkenny, 312 ac., pop. 609. Bartholomew
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