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The 1821 Census of Ireland spells the name as Cloughoge and Cloughlog and Cloughlough and states- containing 67 acres of arable & pasture lands. [6] [7] The 1825 Tithe Applotment Books spell the name as Clohoges. [8] The Cloghoge Valuation Office Field books are available for August 1838. [9] [10]
Politics – In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either pro-slavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, pro-slavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on if it won the county seat. Towns that were contenders for the county seat and lost typically saw most, if not all, of their ...
Explorer Zebulon Pike first coined the name the Flint Hills in 1806 when he entered into his journal, "passed very ruff flint hills". The underlying bedrock of the hills is a flinty limestone. The largest town in the area is Manhattan, Kansas, and the hills can be accessed from the Flint Hills Scenic Byway, which passes through the region.
Robert Andrew McGladdery (18 October 1935 – 20 December 1961) was the last person to be executed in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland. [1]He was convicted of the murder of Pearl Gamble, aged 19, whom he had battered, strangled and stabbed to death on 28 January 1961 and whose body was discovered at Upper Damolly, near Newry, County Down.
Meade County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and largest city is Meade. [2] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 4,055. [1] The county was created in 1873 and named in honor of George Meade, a Union general during the American Civil War.
In its prime, "Old" Ulysses boasted four hotels (the most notable, Hotel Edwards, pictured herein, which was moved to "New Ulysses" in 1909, and has been preserved/restored, currently resting on the grounds of The Historic Adobe Museum for Grant County, Kansas today), twelve restaurants, twelve saloons, a bank, six gambling houses, a large ...
It lies on the small river Clanrye, which divides the townlands of Mayo and Bavan, 4.4 miles (7.1 km) east of Newry. It had a population of 1,069 as at 2011. [ 1 ] Administratively, it is within the Newry and Mourne District Council area, and falls within the parish of Clonallan , and historically within the barony of Iveagh Upper, Upper Half .
Iola (/ aɪ ˈ oʊ l ə /) [5] is the county seat of Allen County, Kansas, United States. [1] The city is situated along the Neosho River in southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,396. [3] [4] It is named in honor of Iola Colborn, the wife of Josiah Colborn, one of the town's founders. [6]