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CURRAGH , a level stretch of open ground in Co. See also:Kildare, See also:Ireland, famous for its See also:race-course and its military See also:camp. It has an See also:area of upwards of 4800 acres; and its soft natural sward, which has never been broken by the plough, affords excellent pasture for See also:sheep. From the peculiarity of its herbage, the See also:district is known in the neighbourhood as " the See also:short grass "; and the See also:young men of Kildare are jocularly distinguished as the " boys of the short grass." The See also:land is the See also:property of the See also:crown, which appoints a See also:special officer as the See also:ranger of the Curragh; but the right of pasturage is possessed by the land-owners of the vicinity. The See also:oldest mention of the Curragh occurs in the See also:Liber Hymnorum (the See also:manuscript of which probably See also:dates from the loth See also:century) in connexion with St See also:Bridget, who is said to have received a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of the district from the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Leinster, and is popularly credited with the See also:honour of having turned it into a See also:common. It is evident, however, that See also:long before the days of the See also:saint the See also:downs of Kildare had afforded a See also:regular See also:place of See also:assembly for the See also:people of the See also:south of Ireland. The word cuirrech, cognate with the See also:Lat. cursus, signifies a race-course, and See also:chariot-races are spoken of as taking place on the Curragh as See also:early as 'the 1st century A.D. The Aenach Colmain (Curragh See also:fair), also called Aenach See also:Life (the fair on the See also:plain of the Liffey), is frequently mentioned in the Irish See also:annals, and both racing and other See also:sports were carried on at this, the See also:principal See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting of its See also:kind in See also:southern Ireland, and the plain appears from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time as the See also:scene of hostile encounters between the See also:kings of See also:Meath, Leinster and Offaly. In 1234 the See also:earl of Pems See also:broke was defeated here by the See also:viceroy of Ireland, See also:Lord.See also:Geoffrey de See also:Monte Marisco; and in 1406 the Irish under the See also:prior of Connell were routed by the See also:English. In 1789 the Curragh was the See also:great See also:rendezvous for the See also:volunteers, and in 1804 it saw the gathering of 30,000 See also:United Irishmen. The camp was established at the time of the See also:Crimean See also:War, and is capable of accommodating 12,000 men. The races are held in See also:April, See also:June, See also:September and See also:October.
See W. M. Hennessy, in Proceedings of Royal Irish Acad., 1866.
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