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•ej'.tenfive cotton tnillf, and a manufaclere of cotton 

 goods for Pafley. 



Kilbride, (Lan. S.J a thriving village, has a 

 cotton manufadory, and makes fome coarfe muflins 

 and bed counterpanes. 



KiLDARE, CKUd. I.) an antient epifcopal city, 

 with very little trade, being chiefly fupportcd by 

 the concourfe attracted by the races frequently held 

 on a traft of ground, called the Curragh, well 

 adapted for fuch exhibitions. 



Kilkenny, a city and county of itfelf, in the 

 heart of the larger county of Kilkenny, is very 

 populous for an inland place, having about 16,000 

 inhabitants. In and around it blankets, and other 

 coarfe woolen goods, are manufactured, and very 

 tine marble is dug, which is carried to various parts 

 of Ireland, and even to London. 



KiLLALA, (Ma\o, I.J a fmall town, fituated at 

 the mouth of the lliver Moy, and at the head of a 

 fine bay, with a good land-locked harbour, but 

 with very little trade. 



KiLLALOE, (Ctiire, I.J a fmall epifcopal city on 

 the Sliannon, has fome trade by boats, which, by 

 means of canals where the navigation of the river 

 is interrupted, carry merchandize, &c. to and from 

 Limerick. 



KiLLARNEv, (Kerry, I.J a fmall town with a 

 manufafture of linen. 



KiLLERiEs, (Mayo, I.J a village on a fmall in- 

 kt of the fea opening into a fpacious bay, to which 

 great numbers of bulfes refort in the herring fcafon. 



KiLLOiJGH, (Down, I.J a village at the head of 

 a little bay, with fome fmall coafting veflels. 



KiLLYBEGs, (Don. I.J a town on the north fide 

 of Donegal bay, with a few veflels, and fome for- 

 eign trade. 



KiLLVLEAGH, (Di'U'n, I.J a town on the (hore 

 of Strangford lough, with a harbour for fmall vef- 

 ftls. 



Kilmarnock, (/Jyr, S.J a thriving town, con- 

 taining about 6,000 inhabitants, of whom near a 

 half are employed in a variety of manufaftures, 

 eonfifting of carpets, cotton goods, leather, iron, 

 tobacco, &c. 



KilMaurs, (-t4yr, S.J an inland town, formerly 

 famous for the (harpnefs and elegance of the knives 

 made in it, called Kilmaurs whittles, the fame name 

 by which the Sheffield knives were known in Chau- 

 cer's time. It is not now diltinguifhed by any kind 

 of manufadluring induftry, except that of fome of 

 the girls in tambouring. 



KiLPATRiCic, (Dunl. S.J a profperous village 

 on the north bank of the Clyde, at the weft, end 

 of the great canal. The vicinity of Glafgow hat 

 infpired manufafturing induftry; and above 1,300 

 people, of all ages and of both fcxcs, are comfort- 

 ably fupported by calico-printing, bleaching, paper- 

 making, iron-works, and a pretty extenfive woolem 

 manufacture *. 



KiLRONAN, ( Rofc. I.) a village near the head 

 of the Shannon, with valuable mines of coal, iron, 

 and apparently other metals, and great variety of 

 potter's earth, flint, &c. The coal is worked very 

 imperfedly ; and the iron, &c. are neglefted. 



Kilsyth, (Stir/. SJ a large and increafing vil- 

 lage, near the Forth-and-Clyde canal. Muflin and 

 tambouring are the principal branches of manufac- 

 ture. 



KiLTARiLTY, (Inv. S.J 3 village with faw mills 

 on the River Beauly, at which yellow fir of a very 

 durable quality, brought down from he forefts by 

 that river, and the Glas, and the Cannich, is made 

 into boards, and then floated down to Lovat, where 

 veflels, not exceeding 90 tuns, load with them for 

 Leith, London, and other places. 



Kilwinning, (Ayr,S.J an inland village, witk 

 fome cotton works, fome manufaftures of filk gauzes 

 and muflins, and tambouring and flowering upon the 

 later. 



Kincardin, (Perth, S.J a new village of neat 

 houfes on the fliore of the Forth. Many veflels 

 are built here, of which fome are fold to other 

 ports, and employed in the Weft-India trade and 

 Greenland fiftiery. 'Ihofe belonging to the place 

 meafure above 4,000 tuns, being about two thirds 

 of the whole fliipping regiftered in the port of Al- 

 loa, of which this is a creek. They are moftly em- 

 ployed in carrying coal, fait, lime, &c. from Alloa, 

 and other harbours on the Forth, to Leith, Dun- 

 dee, Pefth, Holland, Norway, and the Baltic, and 

 in importing wood, iron, flax, and flax -feed, with 

 which they fupply, not only their own neighbour- 

 hood, but even Glafgow and the weft coaft by 

 means of the canal. Many of them are chartered ; 

 and of thefe fome go to the Levant, and one weit 

 even to India in the fervice of government ■(-. Form- 

 erly fait was fliipped here to a corifiderable amount. 

 When that trade was given up, great diftilleries 

 were eftabliflied ; and happily they have declined. 

 There are quarries of excellent ftone, from which 

 the infirmary, royal exchange, and feglfter-office, 

 in Edinburgh, a church in Aberdeen, and (accord- 



* Tiefe works, while they enrich the country' all-around them, alfo relieve the old inhabitants of the place in the e»- 

 penfe of their poor, inliead of burthening them with an adiiitional load, as is the cafe in fome mannfaifturing diflriiSs. 

 'At feveral of the works weekly colleiaions are made by the workmen, which are accunrulated into a capital, and, by the 

 ' judicious management of the proprietors, they are thereby enabled, not only to maintain their poor, but alfo to employ 

 ' furgeons and fchoolmaflers for the benefit of the workmen and their families." [Siati/li.-al AcmuKt of Scotland, V. v, p. 

 237] The fame wife policy is eflablllhcd by Medieurs .Boulton and Watt in their great works at Soho, which ice. Ami 

 it muft give pleafure to a philanthropift and a lover of his country to obferve that Cmilar eftablifhments are becoming 

 general. 



1 Mr. Loch was of opinion that Kincardin employed .more (hipping th;ir. ary other port in Great Britain, in propor- 

 cion to the number of peopls. ' a 



