HOWTH
[pronounced Hothl, a seaside See also:town of Co
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See also:Dublin, See also:Ireland, on the rocky See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill of Howth, which forms the See also:northern See also:horn of Dublin See also:Bay, 9 M
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N.E. by N. of Dublin by the See also:Great Northern railway
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Pop
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(1901) 1166
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It is frequented by the residents of the See also:capital as a watering-See also:place
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The artificial See also:harbour was formed (1807—1832) between the mainland and the picturesque See also:island of Ireland's See also:Eye, and preceded See also:Kingstown as the station for the See also:mail-packets from Great See also:Britain, but was found after its construction to be liable to silt, and is now chiefly used by fishing-boats and yachts
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The collegiate See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, See also:standing picturesquely on a cliff above the See also:sea, was founded about 1235, and has a monastic See also:building attached to it
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The embattled See also:castle contains the two-handed See also:sword of See also:Sir Almeric Tristram, the Anglo-See also:Norman conqueror of the hill of Howth; and a portrait of See also:Dean See also:Swift holding one of the Drapier letters, with See also:Wood, the coiner against whom he directed these attack, prostrate before him
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The view of Dublin Bay from the hill of Howth is of great beauty
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Howth is connected with the capital by electric See also:tramway, besides the railway, and another tramway encircles the hill
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