ZETTEER. 



Carnarvon, alio tlic capital of a Welfli county 

 called by its name, has a pretty good harbour on 

 the Strait of Menai, but very little trade. 



Carnew, (^li^ci. /. ) a village fituatcd in a county 

 occupied bymakers of linens andcoarfe woolen cloths, 



Carrick, (Leif. I.) a town fituated on the 

 Shannon, which, with the adjacent country is rifmg 

 into profperity by the increafe of the linen manu- 

 fafture. 



Carrick, ( Tip. 7.) a town on the Suire, near 20 

 miles above Waterford, is a confiderable town, with 

 a manufafture of woolen clotlis of a kind called 

 rateens. Sailing veiTels can go up to it from the 

 fea. 



Carrickfergus, (y/n;. /.) a town invefted with 

 the privileges of a county, fituated on the north fide 

 of a bay, which ufed to be called Carrickfergus 

 lough. But as the trade, which was once pretty 

 confiderable has moftly removed to Belfaft, the bay 

 has alfo taken its name, and is now generally called 

 the Lough of Belfaft. 



Carrickmacross, [Man. I.) a thriving town, 

 with a (liare of the linen trade. 



Carron works, {Slir/. S.) the greateft iron- 

 workb in Europe, condufted by the greateft com- 

 pany ever aflTociated for carrying on a manufafture. 

 For giving motion to the machinery of this vaft 

 eftablifliment, the company have the command of 

 the whole force of the River Carron, which alfo 

 brings their ore, coal, and other materials, up to the 

 works, and carries off the manufaftured goods, with- 

 out any cartage. Cannon are caft fohd, and bored 

 by drills turned by the river ; and not only the 

 Britifti government, but evei'y power in Europe, 

 has been fupplied with them. Tliere is alfo a 

 fhorter kind of cannon, of a proportion between a 

 great gun and a howitzer, invented in the year 1752 

 at the fort on Cove ifiand in the harbour of Cork 

 by General Melville, firft made here in 1779 by 

 Mr. Gafcoigne, direftor of the works, and now well 

 known over all the world by the name of carronades. 

 Pipes, cylinders, boilers for fugar-works, ballaft for 

 fhips, ftove grates, which are now in almoft every 

 apartment in the Britiih dominions where coal is 

 burnt, and, in general, every article that can be made 

 of caft iron, are made in great perteftion at thefe 

 works. There are alfo forges for making anchors 

 of all fizes, anvils, and other heavy articles ; ma- 

 chinery for making malleable iron, and plating iron. 

 Above 140 tuns of coal are expended every day, 

 and about 1 000 men are employed in time of peace, 

 but a mucli greater nuiribcr in war *. — In the 

 neighbourhood there is a large manufafture 01 nails, 

 and feveral others on fmaller fcales. 



Castlebar, [Mayo, I.) an inland town, rifing 

 to importance by the linen manufafture. 



Castle Bellingham, {Louth, 7.) a neat vil- 

 lage on Dundalk bay, with fome linen trade, and 

 noted for the beft ale in Ireland. 



Castleblaney, {Mon. I.) a village with a 

 thriving linen trade. 



Castlecomer, (Kilk. /.) a fmall inland town, 

 near extenfive mines of ard coal, valuable for fmith's 

 work, which is carried to diftant parts of the coun- 

 tr)' by land carriage. 



Castle Douglas, [Kirk. S.) a. burgh town 

 (formerly a village called Carlinwark) lately raifed 

 to fome importance by tlie eftablifliment of two cot- 

 ton works. The country around is much improved 

 by a navigable canal between Carlinwark loch and 

 the River Dee, wliereby marie is carried in boats up 

 as far as New Galloway, 15 miles above the canal, 



Castlemain, (Ker. I.) a town on the River 

 Mang, which carries boats up to it from a land- 

 locked bay, called Caftlemain harbour. 



Castleshane, [Moil. I.) a village in the linen 

 trade. 



Castletown, [Marin) the feat of the govern- 

 ment of the ifland, has a few ve.lels and a little 

 trade. Its harbour, fituated at the head of a rocky 

 bay, is a creek of Derby, which, with fome other 

 creeks, has fcarcely a third of the ftiipping pofTefled 

 by any one of the three other ports of the ifland. 



Catrine, {yfy, S.) a village on the River Ayr, 

 erefted in the year 1787 by Mr, Alexander, the 

 proprietor of the ground, and Mr. Dale of Glafgow, 

 the patriotic and beneficent father of the cotton- 

 fpinning trade in Scotland. It contains a twift 

 mill and fpinning jennies, all diaven by water taken 

 from the river : and there are a number of weavers 

 employed by the manufafturers of Glafgow and 

 Pafley. In the year 1793 the village contained 

 1601 perfons : but the number has fiiice fallen off. 

 — Theproprietorshave provided the inhabitants with 

 grafs for cows, ground for potatoes, gardens, a pub- 

 lic walk, a church, a fchool, and, in order to reftore 

 the ufe of ale inftead of whiflcy, a brewery. In con- 

 fequence of thefe benevolent meafurcs, the people 

 are remarkably healthy and orderly, and their good 

 example has a happy influence in the neighbouring 

 country f . 



Cellardike, [Fife, S.) in the profperous days 

 of the fifliery in the Firth of Forth was a place of 

 confiderable trade and population. It may now al- 

 moft be called a defcrted village. 



Charlemont, [Ai-m. I.) a town on the Black, 

 water, which is navigable tlience to Lough Neagh, 

 has fome fliare of the linen trade. 



ChArlestown, [Corn. E.) a village, formerly 

 called Polmere, and containing only three or four 

 fmiill houfes, has lately been improved by Mr. Rafli- 

 leigh, the>proprietor, to a pretty good town, with a 



* Nimmo, in a work which he calls A^ineral hijlory 0/ St'irlin^-jhhr, p. 461, ftates (he number at ' near two thoufand 

 people," including apparently thofc employcil in the coal mines, iione quarries, charring works, &c. as well as thofc with- 

 in the walh of the works. 



+ As many attempts have been made to rcprcfcnt manufailuring eftal)li(hments as not only ruinous to agriculture, to 

 which they are eviJently a great fupport, but alfo at feuuiiaries of vice and immorality, and nurfcrics of dikafc, fuch ex- 

 amples of philanthropy artd true patriotifta ought to be made as public as poflibk. 



