KILLYBEGS
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V15,
Page 797
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
KILLYBEGS
, a seaport and See also:market See also:town of See also:county See also:Donegal, See also:Ireland, in the See also:south See also:parliamentary See also:division, on the See also:north See also:coast on Donegal See also:Bay, the See also:terminus of the Donegal railway
.
Pop
.
(1901), 607
.
It derives some importance from its See also:fine See also:land-locked See also:harbour, which, affording See also:accommodation to large vessels, is used as a See also:naval station, and is the centre of an important See also:fishery
.
There is a large See also:pier for the fishing vessels
.
The manufacture of carpets occupies a See also:part of the See also:population, employing both male and See also:female labour—the productions being known as Donegal carpets
.
There are slight remains of a See also:castle and See also:ancient 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; and a See also:mineral See also:spring is still used
.
The town received a See also:charter from See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I., and was a parliamentary See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough, returning two members, until the See also:Union
.
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