Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Maynooth

Maynooth, town with ry. sta., Laraghbryan par., N. co. Kildare, on Rye Water and Royal Canal, 15 miles W. of Dublin, pop. 1278; P.O., T.O.; contains the Royal College of St Patrick (opened 1795), the principal educational establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "town with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Kildare IrlC
Place: Maynooth

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