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LONGFORD , the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county See also:

TOWN

town of Co. Longford, See also:

Ireland, on the See also:

RIVER

river Camlin, and on a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the Midland See also:

GREAT

Great Western railway, 75 M. W.N.W. of See also:

DUBLIN

Dublin. Pop. (1901) 3747. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

BUILDING

building is St Mel's See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral for the See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of Ardagh, one of the finest Roman Catholic churches in Ireland. The town has a considerable See also:

trade in See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

BUTTER (Lat. butyrum, Gr. 0obrvpov, apparently connected with $ous, cow, and rvpbs, cheese, but, according to the New English Dictionary, perhaps of Scythian origin)

butter and See also:

bacon. There are See also:

corn-See also:

mills, a spool factory and tanneries. Longford is governed by an See also:

urban See also:

DISTRICT

district See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council. The See also:

ancient name of the town was Athfada, and here a monastery is said to have been founded by St Idus, a See also:

DISCIPLE

disciple of St See also:

Patrick. The town obtained a See also:

FAIR

fair and See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market from See also:

James I. and a See also:

CHARTER (Lat. charta, carta, from Gr. Xap-rns, originally for papyrus, material for writing, thence transferred to paper and from this material to the document, in O. Eng. boc, book)

charter of See also:

INCORPORATION (from Lat. incorporare, to form into a body)

incorporation from See also:

Charles II., as well as the right to return two members to See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament. It was disfranchised at the See also:

Union in 1800.

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