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KILLALA (pron. Killklla)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 795 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KILLALA (pron. Killklla) , a small See also:town on the See also:north See also:coast of See also:county See also:Mayo, See also:Ireland, in the See also:northern See also:parliamentary See also:division, on the western See also:shore of a See also:fine See also:bay to which it gives name. Pop. (1901), 510. It is a See also:terminus of a See also:branch of the Midland See also:Great Western railway. Its See also:trade is almost wholly diverted to See also:Ballina on the See also:river Moy, which enters the bay, but Killala is of high antiquarian and See also:historical See also:interest. It was for many centuries a See also:bishop's see, the See also:foundation being attributed to St See also:Patrick in the 5th See also:century, but the See also:diocese was joined with Achonry See also:early in the 17th century and with See also:Tuam in 1833. The See also:cathedral See also:church of St Patrick is a See also:plain structure of the 17th century. There is a fine souterrain, evidently connected with a See also:rath, or encampment, in the graveyard. A See also:round See also:tower, 84 ft. in height, stands boldly on an isolated See also:eminence. See also:Close to Killala the See also:French under See also:Humbert landed in 1798, being diverted by contrary winds from the See also:Donegal coast. Near the Moy river, See also:south of Killala, are the abbeys of Moyne and Roserk or Rosserick, both Decorated in See also:style, and both possessing fine cloisters.

At Rathfran, 2 M. N., is a Dominican See also:

abbey (1274), and in the neighbourhood are camps, cromlechs, and an inscribed ogham See also:stone, 12 ft. in height. Killala gives name to a See also:Roman See also:Catholic diocese, the seat of which, however, is at Ballina.

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