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| | The English Pale |
 | | It was not until a full century after this, that the English land became known as "The Pale," from which period it showed a general tendency to shrinkage on account of the encroachment of the natives, until by 1515 it included only portions of the four counties, Dublin, Kildare, Meath, and Uriel (Louth). |
 | | About the year 1364 the power of the Kavanaghs and other native chieftains had grown to such an extent that the outlying portions of the Pale had to be abandoned, and the settlers generally had to fall back from the border extending southward by Kildare and Carlow to the sea. |
 | | The lands immediately outside the Pale constituted a sort of neutral ground, such as we nowadays call a "hinterland," and were known as the March lands or the Marches. |
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