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WESTPORT

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 559 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WESTPORT  , a

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town, seaport and seaside resort of County Mayo, Ireland, near the mouth of a small
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river in Clew
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Bay . Pop . (Igor) 3892 . The town is 16o m . W. from
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Dublin by the Midland
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Great Western railway, Westport Quay at the river mouth being served by a branch
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line . There is a small export trade in grain . The beautiful demesne of the marquess of
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Sligo enriches the neighbourhood . Clew Bay, thickly studded with islands and surrounded with mountains, is one of the most magnificent of the great inlets on the W. coast . Near the S.
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shore is Croagh Patrick (2510 ft.), an isolated conical hill of singularly perfect form, in wide repute as a place of pilgrimage .

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