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Cork county, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons |
 | | CORK (County of), A maritime county of the province of MUNSTER, and the largest in IRELAND, bounded on the east by the counties of Tipperary and Waterford, on the north by that of Limerick, on the west by that of Kerry, and on the south-west, south, and south-east by St. |
 | | In the city of Cork are the county gaol and house of correction, rules for the management of which were drawn up by a committee of the magistrates in 1816, which were afterwards embodied in the general act for the prisons of Ireland. |
 | | The calcareous districts comprise the greater part of the vale in the north of the Blackwater, and of the vale south-west of Cork, the vale of Imokilly extending from Midleton to Killeagh, and the vale of the Bride from Rathcormac to Tallow. |
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