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ENNISCORTHY , a See also:market See also:town of Co. See also:Wexford, See also:Ireland, in the See also:north See also:parliamentary See also:division, on the See also:side of a steep See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill above the Slaney, which here becomes navigable for See also:barges of large See also:size. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 5458. It is 771 M. S. by W. from See also:Dublin by the Dublin & See also:South-Eastern railway. There are breweries and See also:flour-See also:mills; tanning, distilling and woollen manufactures are also prosecuted to some extent, and the town is the centre of the agricultural See also:trade for the district, which is aided by the See also:water communication with Wexford. There are important See also:fowl markets and See also:horse-fairs. Enniscorthy was taken by See also:Cromwell in 1649, and in 1798 was stormed and burned by the rebels, whose See also:main forces encamped on an See also:eminence called See also:Vinegar Hill, which overlooks the town from the See also:east. The old See also:castle of Enniscorthy, a massive square See also:pile with a See also:round See also:tower at each corner, is one of the earliest military structures of the Anglo-See also:Norman invaders, founded by See also:Raymond le See also:Gros (1176). Ferns, the next station to Enniscorthy on the railway towards Dublin, was the seat of a former bishopric, and the modernized See also:cathedral, and ruins of a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, an Augustinian monastery founded by Dermod Mac-Morrough about 116o, and a castle of the Norman See also:period, are still to be seen. Enniscorthy was incorporated by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I., and sent two members to the Irish See also:parliament until the See also:Union.
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