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of Ireland, fituated in the county of Down and province 
of Ulfter, feventy-fix miles from Dublin. It lies north of 
St.John’s Point, and has a good quay, where (hips lie 
very fafe. The town is agreeably fituated ; the fea flow¬ 
ing all along the backs of the houfes, where (hips ride in 
Tull view of the inhabitants. Here is a good church, and 
a horfe-barrack. They have good fiihing in the bay ; but 
the principal trade of the place confifts in the exportation 
of barley, and the importation of fuch commodities as are 
confirmed in the adjacent country. A manufacture of fait' 
is alfo carried on with great advantage. The fairs held 
here are five. At a final! diftance from the town is a char¬ 
ter working-fchool for the reception of twenty children, 
iet on foot by the late Mr. Juftice Ward. There is a re¬ 
markable well here, called St. Scordin's well, and highly 
■efteemed for the extraordinary lightnefs of its water. It 
.gullies out of a high rocky bank, clofe upon the ffiore, and 
is obferved never todiminilh its quantity in the dried fea- 
fon. There is alfo a mineral fpring near the fchool, the 
waters of which the inhabitants affirm to be both purga¬ 
tive and emetic. At a fmali diftance from the town near 
..the fea is a rock in which there is an oblong hole, from 
whence at the ebbing and flowing of the tide a ftrange 
noife is heard, fomewhat refembling the found of a huntf- 
man’s horn. In an open field about a quarter of a mile 
from the town towards St. John’s Point there is a very cu¬ 
rious cave, which has a winding paflage two feet and a half 
broad, with three doors in it befides the entrance, and lead¬ 
ing to a circular chamber three yards in diameter, Where 
.there is a fine limpid well. The cave is about twenty-fe- 
ven yards long. 
Killough Harbour is tolerably fafe and commodious ; a 
fmali degree of caution, however, is neceflary in failing 
into it; for a rock (lands in the middle of the entrance, 
covered at half-flood, commonly called the water-rock. 
Either to the eaft or weft of this rock is a fecure paflage, 
the inlet lying fouth by eaft and north by weft. On the 
weft fide of the rock open to Coney-ifland is a ftrong quay, 
and a bafon for (hips, where they are defended from all 
winds, within which the harbour on both fides affords 
good anchorage for velfels of 150 tons. At the end of 
the quay the channel is 400 yards wide. The bay of Kil¬ 
lough is formed by Rin-fad and the Long Point to the eaft, 
and St. John’s Point to the weft, as the inner harbour is 
by apeninfula called Conty-ijle from the number of rabbits 
thereon, and not Canc-ijle as fir William Petty fuppofes. 
A mod impetuous fea runs on all this coafl in dorms and 
fpring-tides. 
KIL'LOW, f. [This feems a corruption of coal and low, 
a flame, as foot is thereby produced.] An earth of a black- 
iffi or deep blue colour; and doubtlefs had its name from 
hollow, by which name, in the North, the fmut or grime 
on the backs of chimneys is called. Woodward. 
KILL'RUSH, a town of Ireland, in the county of Kil¬ 
dare. In 1642, the Iri(h rebels were defeated here by the 
duke of Ormond ; and, in 1643, the duke burned the town : 
twelve miles fouth-weft of Naas. 
KILLUCAN', a poft-town of Ireland, in the county of 
Weltmeath, and province of Leinfter : twenty-eight miles 
weft by north from Dublin. 
KIL'LY HOLM, one of the fmaller Orkney iflands, 
about half a mile north of Eglilha. 
KILTY NAU'LE. See Killenaule, p. 718. 
KIL'LYBEGS, a town of Ireland, in the county of Do¬ 
negal. Before the union it fent two members to the Irifti 
parliament. It is fituated on a creek, on the north fide 
of Donegal Bay. This creek forms a bay of a circular 
form, the entrance narrow, but free from danger, and ca¬ 
pable of receiving (hips of burthen : and, when once in, 
fhips may lie any where, from fix to ten fathom water, in 
perfect fafety : thirteen miles weft of Donegal. Tat. 54. 
38. N. Ion. 8. 18. W. 
KIL'MACK, a town in Ireland, in the county of Wa¬ 
terford, and province of M under. 
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KILMATN'HAM, a town of Ireland, fituated about 
half a mile from Dublin. It has a feffions-houfe and hand- 
lome gaol ; and here the quarter-feffions are held for the 
county of Dublin, and knights of the (hire elected for 
that county. This place was fometimes the feat of go¬ 
vernment, before Dublin-caltle was converted to that pur- 
pofe ; and, though now much decayed, it gives title of ba¬ 
ron to the family of Wenman. An ancient priory was 
-founded here, and a houfe for knights hofpitalers of St. 
John of Jerulalem. See Dublin, vol. vi. p. 100. 
KILMAR'NOCK, a town of Scotland, and burgh of 
barony, in the county of Ayr, and one of the mod confi- 
derable manufacturing towns in the county, on a fmali ri¬ 
ver to which it gives name. In 1801, it contained 8079 in¬ 
habitants, of whom 6757 were employed in trade and manu¬ 
factures : twenty-two miles fouth-weft of Glafgow, and 
twelve north-north-eaftof Ayr. Lat. 55.40. N. 100.4.27. W. 
KILMAU'RS, a town of Scotland, and burgh of barony, 
in Ayrfliire ; formerly celebrated for its cutlery, and efpe- 
cially knives, fo that a Kilmaurs whittle was famous to a pro¬ 
verb : two miles north of Kilmarnock. 
KIL'MES, a town of Ruffia, in the government of Vi- 
atka : twenty-eight miles north-eaft of Malmifch. 
KIL'MES, a river of Ruffia, which runs into the Vi- 
atka thirty-two miles north-north-eaft of Malmifch. 
KIL'MINGTON, a village of England, in the county 
of Devon, near Axbridge, where Athelltan defeated the 
Danes : in memory of which, Mr. Hoare, of Stourhead, 
a beautiful feat near the fpot, has ereCled a column with 
a fuitable infcription : nine miles weft of Warminfter, and 
107 weft of London. 
KILMO'RE, a village and bifliop’s fee in the county of 
Cavan and province of Ulfter, in Ireland. It was called 
in former ages Clunes, or Clunis, i. e. “ the fequeftered 
place and is fituated near Lough Erne. St. Fedlimid 
founded this bifliopric in the fixth century; it was after¬ 
wards removed to an obfcure village called Triburna ; 
where it continued until the year 1454, when Andrew 
Macbrady biffiop of Triburna erected a church on the fite 
of that founded by St. Fedlimid, to whofe memory it was 
dedicated, and denominated Kilmore, or “ the great church.” 
At prefent there is neither cathedral, chapter, nor ca¬ 
nons, belonging to this fee ; the (inall pariffi-church conti¬ 
guous to the epifcopal houfe ferving (or the purpofe of a 
cathedral. It is three miles fouth-weft of Cavan. 
KILMO'RY, a town of Scotland, on the fouth coaft of 
the ifland of Arran : eight miles fouth-weft Lamlaffi. 
KILMU'IR, a town of Scotland, in the county of Rofs: 
five miles fouth of Tain. 
KILN, f. [cyln. Sax.] A (love; a fabric formed for 
admitting heat, in order to dry or burn things contained 
in it.—Phylicians chufe lime which is newly drawn out 
of the kiln, and not flacked. Moxords Meek. Exer. 
Kiln, in (hip-building, a convenience for boiling or 
(learning planks to make them pliable. 
A boiler-kiln is either made of ffieet-copper, bottom and 
fides rivetted together, or the bottom of ffieet-copper, and 
the (ides of lead riveted and loldered together. This is 
fixed in a body of brick-work; and under each end, or in 
the middle, are furnaces to caufe the water to boil after 
the planks are in. The upper part, to preferve the fleam 
and facilitate the boiling, is incloled by ffiutters, opening 
by hinges and fmali tackles. 
A Jleam-kiln is a trunk compofed of deals grooved and 
tongued together edgeways, and is from three to four feet 
fquare, and from forty to fixty feet long, with a door 
at each end. It is confined together by bolts driven 
through the fides at certain diftances, which anfwer the 
purpofe of bearers, whereon the planks reft while (learn¬ 
ing. It is fupported, about four feet above the ground, 
upon a ltrong framing of wood. Underneath it, in the 
middle, is fixed, in brick-work, a large copper or iron 
boiler, or, which is better, one towards each end ; the 
fteain from the boilers, iffuing into the trunk wherein it is 
confined. 
