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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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monde, Coarse woollen stuffs are manufactured, but the Kilkenny of to-dayis only a shadow of its former self, as is attested by its numerous ruins, Thomns-toitn, also on the Nore, is the birthplace of Father Mathew. Near it are the ruinsof Jerpoint Abbey. Coal is worked in the northern part of the county, nearCastlecomer. In the valley of the Kings River lie Kclls, fovmded by a followerof Strongbow, but now a wretched village, and ddlan. Johnstown and TJrling-ford lie to the north-west.187 418 Till-: r.Kirisii isles. Ulster.—Ulster consists of thoeoiuitics of Nortb-wcstera Ireland, and is moredensely peopled than any other portion of the island. This population, however, iscrowded into the large towns in the east, where Scotch settlers introduced thelinen industry. The west of the province is wholly pastoral and agricultural,and Irish is still spoken or understood there by many people. In 1871, out of Fig. 204.—Cari.tngfokd Lough. Fr.-.m iin A<lmiralty Chart. Scale 1 : 109,000.
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2 Miles. 84,923 persons who spoke Iri.sh throughout the province, 77,788 resided in thecounties of Donegal, Tyrone, and Monaghan. Down is a maritime county, extending from Carlingford to Belfast Lough.The Mourne Mountains and other barren hills occupy a considerable area, but thecounty consists for the most part of fertile hills sloping down inland towardsLough )Seagh. The linen trade is the principal resource of the inhabitants. Ncicry, at the northern extremity of Carlingford Lough, and on the Xewry ULSTER. 419 River, lias been raised solely through its industry to the eminent position it holdsamong the maritime towns of Ireland ; for its harbour does not give access to largevessels, which stop at TFarreiipo/tif, romantically seated on the northern bank ofthe lough. Below the latter, and right at the foot of the Mourne Mountains, is Fig. 205.—Straxgford Lovgh.Scale 1 : 300,000. ^MQW!^^^^, -V45*Pn^v- )imii^

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