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KILLYLEAGH

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 797 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KILLYLEAGH  , a small seaport and

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town of county Down, Ireland, in the east
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parliamentary division, on the western
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shore of Strangford Lough . Pop . (1901), 1410 .
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Linen manufacture is the
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principal industry, and agricultural produce is exported . Killyleagh was an important stronghold in early times, and the
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modern castle preserves the towers of the old
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building .
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Sir John de Courcy erected this among many other fortresses in the neighbourhood; it was besieged by
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Shane O'Neill (1567), destroyed by Monk (1648), and subsequently rebuilt . The town was incorporated by James I., and returned two members to the Irish parliament .

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