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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 187 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SKIBBEREEN , a See also:

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

market See also:

TOWN

town of 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:

Cork, See also:

Ireland, on the See also:

RIVER

river Ilen about 3 M. from its See also:

ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

estuary, 534 M. S.W. of Cork by the Cork, See also:

BANDON, or BANDONBRIDGE

Bandon and See also:

South See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

Coast railway. Pop. (1901) 3208. The river is navigable for small vessels to Skibbereen itself, and for larger ones to Old See also:

Court on the estuary; and the town is a flourishing fishing-station. See also:

Trade in See also:

corn and other agricultural produce is considerable. This See also:

DISTRICT

district suffered terribly in the See also:

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine of 1847, and hundreds of victims were buried in pits in the graveyard adjoining the ruined Cistercian See also:

CELL (from Lat. cella, probably from an Indo-European kal —seen in Lat. celare, to hide; another suggestion connects the word with Lat. cera, wax, taking the original meaning to refer to the honeycomb)

cell of Abbeystrowry, a mile See also:

west of the town. The Ilen offers fishing, See also:

LATE

late in the See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, for See also:

brown and See also:

sea See also:

TROUT (Salmo trutta)

trout. The See also:

main railway continues south to See also:

Baltimore, and a See also:

LIGHT

light railway runs to the pleasant seaside See also:

VILLAGE

village of See also:

SKULL

Skull (or Schull), 15 in. W. Skibbereen is governed by an See also:

urban district See also:

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

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