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| | Monivea or Abbert, Galway County, Ireland - Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons |
 | | MONIVAE, or ABBERT, a market-town and parish, in the barony of TYAQUIN, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 7½ miles (N.) from Craughwell, to which it has a penny post, on the road from Galway City to Castle-Blakeney, and on the river Tyaquin ; containing 5117 inhabitants. |
 | | A national school-house has just been completed ; and here is a dispensary. |
 | | In the demesne of Tyaquin are the ruins of an old castle ; and an inscription on a stone in the old chapel purports that it covers the a remains of Hobbert Burke, Earl of Ulster, Lord of Connaught, Viscount Galway and Baron Tyaquin. |
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