Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Tullamore

Tullamore.-- market and assize town, and township with ry. sta., Kilbride bar., N. King's co., on Grand Canal, 16 miles NW. of Portarlington and 58 miles W. of Dublin, 841 ac., pop. 5098; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks, 1 newspaper. Market-days, Tuesday and Saturday. It has a distillery and a tobacco manufactory.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "market and assize town"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Offaly IrlC
Place: Tullamore

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