A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Munster, province, in SW. of Ireland, bounded N. by Connaught, E. by Leinster, and S. and W. by the Atlantic Ocean; greatest length, NE. and SW., 150 miles; greatest breadth, 110 miles; average breadth, 75 miles; area, 6,064,579 ac., or 29.1 per cent, of the total area of Ireland; pop. 1,331,115 (or 4.5 per cent, less than in 1871), of whom 93.8 per cent, are Roman Catholics, 5.3 Episcopalians, 0.3 Presbyterians, and 0.4 Methodists. (For agricultural statistics, see Appendix.) Previous to the conquest of Ireland, in the reign of Henry II., Munster was divided into the 2 kingdoms of North Munster (now co. Clare) and South Munster. In the reign of Elizabeth upwards of 574,000 ac. of Munster were forfeited to the Crown by rebellion, and granted to English colonists. Munster comprises 6 counties - Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Place: | Munster |
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