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fome coarfe linen and woollen cloths made in it, but fifliing 

 is the chiefs occupation of the inhabitants. The French 

 landed at this place on the 22d of Augutt, 179*^, and took 

 polVeffion (if it. A very interclling narrative of their pro- 

 ceedings, till tliL-ir departure, was publidied by Dr. Stock, 

 at that lime bifliop, \vht> was a prifoner. Killalla is 

 127 niiks NAV. from Dublin, and 24 nearly N. from 

 Call ebur. 



KiLLALi.A, a biftiopric in Ireland, founded in the fifth 

 century, which is united with Achonry, and is in the ec- 

 clefiaftical province of Tuam. The united fees extend into 

 the counties of Mayo and Sligo, the river May and the Ox 

 mountains forming tlie boundary between them. They niea- 

 fure E. and W. ^^ miles, and from N. to S. 21 miles. Large 

 as this diftricl is, there are only 20 benefices, each of which 

 has a church, though only eight have glc-be houfes. The 

 cathedral is fmall, but venerable for its antiquity ; it is the 

 only church in the parifii, though a round tower at the 

 other end of the town indicates the ancient fcite of another 

 church, of which no veftige now remains. Beaufort. 



KILL. ALOE, a bifliopric in Ireland, in the ecclefi- 

 aRicai province of Cafhel. It was founded early in the fifth 

 eentury, and in 17)2 was united with Killfenora, which, 

 though fmall in extent and value, had continued feparate till 

 after the revolution, and was then annexed for feveral years 

 to the fees of Tuam and Clonfert fuccefiively. The united 

 fees comprehend moft of the county of Clare, and part of 

 Tipperary, with fmall portions of the King's and Queen's 

 counties, Galway, and Limerick. The 138 parilhes, 

 united and condeiifed into 50 benefices, have only :5s churches 

 and four glebe houfes. The church of Killaloe is not 

 large for a cathedral, but venerable for its antiquity, and 

 in good prefervatioii, though built above 660 years. Beau- 

 fort. 



Killaloe, a fmall pod-town of Inland, in the county 

 of Clare, and province of Munller, Ireland. It is fituated 

 on the Shannon, over which it has a bridge of 19 arches. 

 Below the bridge is a ledge of rocks whidi prevents the na- 

 vigation of the river : here is a confiderable falmon and eel 

 fiftery ; but there is nothing beautiful in the town except 

 the fituation : very near the tov/n, in the midll of a fine. 

 demefne, on the wellern bank of the Shannon, the bifhop 

 has a hanJfome rcfidence, lately erected. Killaloe is 86i 

 miles S. W. by W. from Dublin, and 2j miles from 

 Ennis. 



■ KILL ANORE, a town of Hindooftan, in the Carnalic ; 

 9 miles N W. of Tritchinopoiy. 



KILLANY Bay, a bay on the E. coaft of the ifiand 

 of Arranmore. N. lat. 53 5'. W. long. 9 36'. 



KILL A RD Point, a cape of Ireland, in the county of 

 Down, at the S. of the entrance to Strangford Lough, 

 and fix miles E. from Downpatrick. N. lat. 54^ 22'. W. 

 long, j" 27'. 



KILLARNEY, a market and poft-town of Ireland, 

 in tbe county of Kerry, and province of Munder. It is a 

 neat and populous town, much freqaented by (Irangerson 

 account of the adjoining lake, the pi<iturefque beauties of 

 which charm every beholder. Lough Lane, or as it is 

 more frequently called, the lake of Killarney, conlills of 

 tv.'o lakes, joined by a long narrow channel ; in the lower 

 and larger lake, the plcafing and the fublirae are moft hap- 

 pily combined ; the upper lake rclcfts a more folemn gran- 

 deur from the ftupcndous crags, with which it is encircled : 

 biit the profpeCts in both arc infinitely divcrfificd. The 

 feveral ifiands, the white rocks of Mucrufs, the groves of 

 arbutus, tlie venerable woods, the variety of waterfalls, 

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tcreftiiig as their afTcmblage is infinitely grand and magni- 

 ficent. Mr. Weld has pubhfhed an interclling 410. volume 

 defcriptive of the various objetls that defervc the notice of 

 the traveller, but as thcfe cannot well be abridged, we mull 

 pafs them over in this work. In the peii ifula of Mucrufs, 

 cobalt and other minerals have been found, hut they are 

 not worked. In Ro!s ifiand, in the lower lake, is a valuable 

 mine, containing copper and lead ; of the former there is 

 not only rich fulplmret, particularly the kind called /iMr/>/f 

 ore, but alfo grey ore, which brings a high price. Kil- 

 larney is the refidence of the Roman Catholic bilhop of 

 Kcrrv, and the jiopulation is chiefly of that religion. It 

 is 144 miles S.W. from Dublin, and 38 W. from Cork. 

 Beaufort. 



KILLAS, in Natural Hi/lory, a name given by the 

 people, who dig in the mines of Cornwall, to a kind of 

 greyifli-whitc earth, which is of great hardnefs, and feems 

 to approach very much to the nature of the IikIus Helmoiit'il 

 of fome kinds, only that it is fon.ewhat lefs hard than that, 

 and has nothing of the fepta or partitions that make the 

 charadcr of that fofiil. This eartb contains fo grea'. a 

 quantity of fpar, that it ferments with acids very llrongly, 

 though that !par being once dilTolved, and the earthy part 

 of the fubftance only left, it will no longer ferment with 

 thcfe menilruums ; whence it is evident, that its terreftrial 

 matter is not alkaline, though the fpar it contains is fo. 



This is the certain character of what is called killas in 

 many parts of Cornwall, where it lies in ftrata of two, 

 throe, or more feet thick, and often befide this is laid on 

 each fide of the vein of tin or other ore. Its texture is 

 either lamellar or coarfely granular ; the lamellar is fofter 

 and lefs martial than the roof fchiftus : its fpecilic gravity 

 from 2.63. to 2.666. Kirwan found 100 grains of the 

 lamellar fort to contain about 60 of filex, 25 of argil, 9 of 

 magncfia, and 6 of iron ; the greenifh fort contains more 

 iron, and gives a grecnidi colour to the nitrous acid. In 

 fome other parts of England, the miners ufe the fame 

 word to exprefs a kind of white, brittle, and (battery ftone, 

 fomewhat like the flag-llone with which they cover houfes 

 in Northamptonlhire, and many other counties. 



Kii.LAS is alio ufed as the name of a flaty Hone of various 

 colours, fpangled all over with talc in fmall flakes in the 

 place where they ufe it. In this fenfe they generally ex- 

 prefs themfelves, when talking of the earth defcribed above, 

 by the plirafe ivhhe killas. They alfo foractimes call this 

 flaky Hone fay the name ddv'in. 



KILLEAM, in Geography, a parochial village in Stir- 

 lingfliire, fituated on the water of Enrick, near its junction 

 with Loch Lomond. Kllleam is the birth-place of the 

 celebrated hillorian and poet George Buchanan, whofe hif- 

 tory of Scotland, and Latin paraphrafe of the Pialms of 

 David, are fo univcrfally known. A Irandfome pillar near 

 Killeam was lately ercftcd as a monument to his memory. 

 An extenfive prinlfield is the only manufafturing eftablifh- 

 ment in this neighbourhood. The pure foft water of the 

 Eirick is indeed extremely well fitted for all the operations 

 of bleaching, dyeing, and printing, but the want of coal 

 is an almoll infuperable objeftion in point of ecoeomv to 

 fuch works. The nearefl are ncp.rly twelve miles diliant. 

 In the neighbourhood is Buchanan houfe, the family man- 

 fion of the dnke of Montrofe. 



KILLENAULE, a poll-town of Ireland, in the county 

 of Tipperary, and province of Munfter. The country 

 around it is very fine. In the neigUbourhood coal is found, 

 of the fame kind as that in the county of Kilkenny. It is 

 72'^ miles S.W. from Dublin. 



klLLERIES' Haubour, a bay of the Atlantic, on 

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