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Castletown House
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Castletown House, Co. Kildare, one of the largest and most influential houses of 18th‐century Ireland, was commissioned by...
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Eire
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...prime minister), Eamon de Valera , during the 1930s. In 1938 the British agreed to relinquish the ports of Cóbh, Castletown Bere, and Lough Swilly, the use of which they had acquired by treaty, but de Valera kept his country technically within...
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Dundalk
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dundalk , town (1991 pop. 30,061), seat of Co. Louth, NE Republic of Ireland, near the mouth of the Castletown River at Dundalk Bay. It has a port that exports livestock, barley, and other crops. Industries include tobacco, clothing...
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Pearce, Edward Lovett
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...Pearce's first known work in Ireland was his collaboration with Italian architect Alessandro Galilei in the design of Castletown House , Co. Kildare. In 1727 he became a member of parliament for Ratoath, Co. Meath. The following year, despite his...
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Conolly, William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Irish History
...successive English ministries, the first clearly identifiable undertaker . Regarded as the richest commoner in Ireland, he built Castletown House . His great‐nephew and heir Thomas Connolly (1738–1803), attached to a major English political...
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Isle of Man
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Heysham, Fleetwood, Liverpool, Stranraer, Belfast, and Dublin. The largest town and capital is Douglas (22,000), followed by Ramsey (6,500), Peel (3,800) and Castletown, the old capital (3,000). J. A. Cannon
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Manx
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...agricultural lands. Today, the population is predominantly urban, residing in the four principal towns of Douglas-Onchan, Castletown, Ramsey, and Port Saint Mary-Port Erin. Smaller towns are expanded villages serving as parish administrative and economic...
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Louth
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...It is a low-lying region, except in the hilly nw and the mountainous n , drained by the rivers Fane, Dee and Castletown. Industries: textiles, footwear, processed food. Area: 821sq km (317sq mi). Pop. (1996) 92,166.
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Museum of Magic and Witchcraft
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...Witchcraft Founded in 1951 by Cecil H. Williamson as the Folklore Center of Superstition and Witchcraft at the Witches Mill, Castletown, Isle of Man, Great Britain. It contained witchcraft relics, as well as reconstructed scenes of occult rituals and instruments...
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