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 832 KILLARNEY chiefly on the summits of hills. It is divided into ten baronies. II. A city, capital of the county, and a county in itself, situated on the St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny. river Nore, 63 m. S. "W. of Dublin, and 30 m. N. by W. of Waterford; pop. in 1871, 15,609. It is well built, paved, lighted, and supplied with water. The principal buildings are the cathedral of St. Canice or Kenny, erected in the 12th century, and having a round tower 100 ft. high adjoining its S. transept; a Ro- man Catholic cathedral, two Episcopal parish churches, six Catholic chapels, two monasteries, a convent, several Presbyterian and Methodist places of worship, the ruins of a Franciscan monastery, prisons, work- house, barracks, and a cas- tle built by Strongbow. Its educational institutions in- clude the Kilkenny college or grammar school, where Swift, Congreve, Farquhar, Bishop Berkeley, and other distinguished persons stud- ied ; and St. Kyran's Roman Catholic seminary for the education of young men destined for the priesthood. EILLARNET, a market town and parish of Ireland, county Kerry, 44 m. N. N. W. of Cork; pop. of the town (which lies partly in the parish of Aghadoe) in 1871, 5,187. It is an unat- tractive place, containing several hotels, a nunnery, a dispensary, a fever hospital, an almshouse, and several churches and chapels, in- cluding a handsome Roman Catholic cathe- dral. It is situated about 1| m. E. of a chain of three lakes famous for their picturesque beau- KILLIGREW ty, and much resorted to by tourists. The upper or southernmost lake is 2J m. long and m. wide. It contains 12 islets, and is con- nected by a circuitous stream with the middle, Muckross, or Tore 4ake, 1J m. long. The lat- ter communicates by three passages with the lower lake, called also Lough Leane, which is 4 m. long and 2 m. broad, and contains 30 islands. On the peninsula between the middle and lower lakes are the picturesque ruins of Ross castle, a fortress of the 15th century, and the remains of Muckross abbey. On the W., S., and S. E. shores rise high mountains, separa- ted by wild ravines, through which flow several beautiful springs. O'Sullivan's cascade, near 1 the W. shore of Lough Leane, consists of three ' distinct falls between high overhanging rocks. K1LLIGREW. I. Sir William, an English poet, born at Hanworth, Middlesex, in 1605, died in London in 1693. He was educated at St. John's college, Cambridge, and became governor of Pendennis castle in Cornwall, and afterward gentleman usher to Charles I. When the civil war broke out he was made a captain in the royal horse guards, and at the restoration gentleman usher to Charles II., and subse- quently first vice chamberlain, which office he held for 22 years. He was buried in West- minster abbey. He wrote " The Siege of Urban," " Selindra," " Ormasdes, or Love and Friendship," and "Pandora," dramas pub- lished at Oxford in 1666, and much praised by Waller. In his old age he wrote " Artless Midnight Thoughts," &c., and " Midnight and Daily Thoughts." II. Thomas, an English dramatist, brother of the preceding, born at Hanworth in 1611, died in. London in 1682. After visiting France, Spain, and Italy, he be- Euins of Koss Castle, Killarney. came page of honor to Charles I., and at the restoration groom of the bedchamber to Charles II., whose exile and privations he had shared,