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DALKEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 768 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DALKEY  , a small

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port and watering-place of Co .
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Dublin, Ireland, in the south
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parliamentary division; 9 M . S.E. of Dublin by the Dublin & South-Eastern railway . Pop. of urban
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district (19o1), 3398 . It is pleasantly situated on and about Sorrento Point, the
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southern horn of Dublin
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Bay . Dalkey Island, lying off the
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town, has an ancient ruined
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chapel, of the
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history of which nothing is certainly known, and a disused battery, which protected the harbour, a landing-place of some former importance . A castle in the town, of the 15th century, is restored to use as offices for the urban district council . There are also ruins of an old church, the dedication of which, like the island chapel, is ascribed to one St Begnet, perhaps a diminutive form of Bega, but the identity is not clear . Until the close of the 18th century Dalkey was notorious for the burlesque election of a " king," a
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mock ceremony which became invested with a certain
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political importance .

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