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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WESTPORT QUAY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BELMULLET	Mayo	Westport, a distance of 57 miles, forming a most interesting drive. The trade consists chiefly in the export of grain, especially of oats and barley; and several spacious warehouses have been built for the deposit, of corn. A commodious quay	Lewis:Ireland
  CLADDAGH	Galway	Westport, Sligo, and other places. A very convenient pier has been constructed for the boats belonging to this place, and the Commissioners of Public Works have advanced £300 on loan towards continuing the quay	Lewis:Ireland
  CLIFDEN	Galway	Westport, the completion of which and the formation of new ones in Connemara would prove highly beneficial to the district. There is a quay	Lewis:Ireland
  MAYO	Mayo	Westport are built at the inner ends of two of those inlets, and are provided with quays, to which vessels	Lewis:Ireland
  Newport, (or Newport Pratt)	Mayo	Westport ry. sta. and 11 miles NW. of Castlebar, pop. 688; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Market-day, Tuesday . Newport is resorted to for bathing. Vessels of 200 tons can reach the quay	Bartholomew
  NEWPORT, or NEWPORT-PRATT	Mayo	Westport, and at present consists principally in the export of grain, of which, on an average, 1000 tons are annually shipped to England. The pier was erected at the expense of Sir R. A. O'Donel and some of the merchants of the town; the quays	Lewis:Ireland
  Quay	Mayo	Quay , 2 miles from Westport, W. co. Mayo; P.O.	Bartholomew
  WESTPORT	Mayo	Westport; or turning round the eastern end of the isle, a vessel may enter the harbour of Innis Gort, which is completely sheltered on all sides, and anchor in from three to five fathoms; or passing the entrance to Innis Gort, may anchor behind an island on the left, called Innis Lyre, in two fathoms or less. From Innis Lyre up to the quays	Lewis:Ireland
  Westport Quay	Mayo	Westport Quay , vil. with ry. sta., 1½ mile W. of Westport, SW. co. Mayo.	Bartholomew

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