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Carlingford Civil Parish, Louth county, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | CARLINGFORD, a sea- port, market and post-town, and a parish (formerly a parliamentary borough), in the barony of LOWER DUNDALK, county of LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER, 11½ miles (E. by N.) from Dundalk;and 59¾ (N.) from Dublin city ; containing 12,185 inhabitants, of which number, 1319 are in the town. |
 | | Carlingford mountain, which overhangs the castle, attains, according to the Ordnance survey, an elevation of 1935 feet above the level of the sea from its height and position it intercepts during a great part of the summer, the direct rays of the sun for several hours before sunset. |
 | | Carlingford formerly gave the title of Earl to the family of Taaffe, which becoming extinct on the death of Theobald, the 4th Earl, in 1738, Geo. |
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