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HOWTH [pronounced Hothl, a seaside See also:town of Co. See also:Dublin, See also:Ireland, on the rocky 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 of Howth, which forms the See also:northern See also:horn of Dublin See also:Bay, 9 M. N.E. by N. of Dublin by the See also:Great Northern railway. Pop. (1901) 1166. It is frequented by the residents of the See also:capital as a watering-See also:place. The artificial See also:harbour was formed (1807—1832) between the mainland and the picturesque See also:island of Ireland's See also:Eye, and preceded See also:Kingstown as the station for the See also:mail-packets from Great See also:Britain, but was found after its construction to be liable to silt, and is now chiefly used by fishing-boats and yachts. The collegiate 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, See also:standing picturesquely on a cliff above the See also:sea, was founded about 1235, and has a monastic See also:building attached to it. The embattled See also:castle contains the two-handed See also:sword of See also:Sir Almeric Tristram, the Anglo-See also:Norman conqueror of the hill of Howth; and a portrait of See also:Dean See also:Swift holding one of the Drapier letters, with See also:Wood, the coiner against whom he directed these attack, prostrate before him. The view of Dublin Bay from the hill of Howth is of great beauty. Howth is connected with the capital by electric See also:tramway, besides the railway, and another tramway encircles the hill.
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