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SKIBBEREEN
, a See also:market See also:town of See also:county See also:Cork, See also:Ireland, on the See also:river Ilen about 3 M. from its See also:estuary, 534 M
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S.W. of Cork by the Cork, See also:Bandon and See also:South See also:Coast railway
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Pop
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(1901) 3208
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The river is navigable for small vessels to Skibbereen itself, and for larger ones to Old See also:Court on the estuary; and the town is a flourishing fishing-station
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See also:Trade in See also:corn and other agricultural produce is considerable
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This See also:district suffered terribly in the See also:famine of 1847, and hundreds of victims were buried in pits in the graveyard adjoining the ruined Cistercian See also:cell of Abbeystrowry, a mile See also:west of the town
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The Ilen offers fishing, See also:late in the See also:season, for See also: |
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