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GWEEDORE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 750 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GWEEDORE , a See also:

hamlet and tourist resort of Co. See also:Donegal, See also:Ireland, on the See also:Londonderry & Lough Swilly & See also:Letterkenny railway. The See also:river Clady, See also:running past the See also:village from the Nacung Loughs, affords See also:salmon and See also:trout fishing. The See also:fine surrounding scenery culminates to the See also:east in the See also:wild See also:mountain Errigal (2466 ft.) at the upper end of the loughs. The See also:place owes its popularity as a resort to See also:Lord See also:George See also:Hill (d. 1899), who also laboured for the amelioration of the conditions of the peasantry on his See also:estate, and combated the See also:Rundale See also:system of See also:minute repartition of See also:property. In 1889, during the troubles which arose out of evictions, Gweedore was the headquarters of the Irish constabulary, when See also:District Inspector See also:Martin was openly murdered on attempting to See also:arrest a See also:priest on his way to See also:Mass.

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