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Carrickmacross, or Magheross, market town, par., and township with ry. sta., S. co. Monaghan, 51 miles NW. of Dublin -- par., 16,708 ac., pop. 6960; township, 118 ac., pop. 2002; 2 Banks. Market-days, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, the last for grain. It has a large trade in corn and provisions; and possesses a free grammar school, founded and endowed by Lord Weymouth in 1711.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Feature Description: | "market town, parish and township, with railway station" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
Administrative units: | Monaghan IrlC |
Place names: | CARRICKMACROSS | CARRICKMACROSS OR MAGHEROSS | MAGHEROSS |
Place: | Carrickmacross |
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