KILLYLEAGH
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V15,
Page 797
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
KILLYLEAGH
, a small seaport and See also:market See also:town of See also:county Down, See also:Ireland, in the See also:east See also:parliamentary See also:division, on the western See also:shore of See also:Strangford Lough
.
Pop
.
(1901), 1410
.
See also:Linen manufacture is the See also:principal See also:industry, and agricultural produce is exported
.
Killyleagh was an important stronghold in See also:early times, and the See also:modern See also:castle preserves the towers of the old See also:building
.
See also:Sir See also:John de Courcy erected this among many other fortresses in the neighbourhood; it was besieged by See also:Shane O'See also:Neill (1567), destroyed by See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
Monk (1648), and subsequently rebuilt
.
The town was incorporated by 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 returned two members to the Irish See also:parliament
.
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