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planted, was left by the will of the late Lady Farnham,
under certain restrictions, as a promenade for the in-
habitants. Though in the midst of a manufacturing
district, there is little trade carried on. The market,
originally granted in the 1st of Jas. I. to John Binglie,
gent., and subsequently by the charter of the 8th of
Jas. I. to the corporation, is on Tuesday, but is chiefly
for potatoes and meal; a very small quantity of yarn
is brought for sale. Fairs, chiefly for young cattle and
horses, are held on Feb. 1st, April 4th, May 14th,
June 30th, Aug. 14th, Sept. 25th, and Nov. 12th, and a
chief constabulary police force has been established
here. Farnham, the seat of Lord Farnham, is one of
the noblest ornaments of the county, for though the
house does not possess much exterior magnificence, it
is surrounded by a demesne of nearly 3000 acres, com-
prising the richest pastures and the greatest variety of
scenery, adorned with wood and water, and every where
improved by art. Lough Oughter, on one side of it,
spreads out from under the woods of Killy, and encircles
many beautiful islands crowned with the finest timber.
One of these, named Cloughoughter, was the place of
confinement of the venerable Bishop Bedell, when in
the hands of the insurgents, in the war of 1641: the
tower in which he was imprisoned is now a fine ruin.
Nearly adjoining the demesne is Castle Saunderson, the
seat of A. Saunderson, Esq., surrounded by a luxuriant
demesne commanding the most beautiful views of Lough
Erne. Clover Hill, an excellent mansion, the seat of
J. Sanderson, Esq., has also a very beautiful demesne,
richly adorned, and bordered by a spacious lake.
Under the charter of Jas. I., the corporation consists
of a sovereign, two portreeves, twelve burgesses, and an
indefinite number of freemen, assisted by a recorder,
town-clerk, and other officers. But the regular ap-
pointment of these officers has been discontinued for
several years; the sovereign and deputy are stationary
in office, and are now the only representatives of the
corporation. The town and the lands enumerated in
the charter are held at a fee-farm rent of £1 English
currency per annum. The same charter conferred the
privilege of returning two members to the Irish parlia-
ment, which was exercised till the period of the Union,
when £15,000 awarded as compensation for the aboli-
tion of the franchise was paid in moieties to Theophilus
Clements and T. Nesbitt, Esqrs. The charter granted
to the corporation a borough court of record, to be
held before the sovereign and two or more burgesses,
every three weeks; but this court has not been held
since 1796. The assizes, and the Hilary and Midsum-
mer quarter sessions, are held here; petty sessions are
also held every week. The county court-house is a fine
spacious building, with a portico in front. The county
gaol is a very spacious building, to which additions
have been recently made on the radiating principle; it
contains in the whole 68 cells, 8 day-rooms, and 10
airing-yards, in one of which is a tread-mill, and is well
adapted for the classification of prisoners; a good school
has been established in it. The average number of pri-
soners is 120; and the whole expense of the gaol, for
1835, was £1190. 3. 5½.
The parish church of Urney is situated in the town.
The R. C. chapel, erected in 1824, at an expense of
£1000, is a neat building; over the altar is a painting
of the Descent from the Cross. On the confines of
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the town is a classical school of royal foundation, under
the charter of the 2nd of Chas. I., which vested several
townlands in the counties of Armagh, Cavan, Ferma-
nagh, Donegal, and Tyrone, in the primate and his
successors in trust for the endowment of schools in each
of those counties. By a late act of parliament the ma-
nagement has been transferred to a Board of Commis-
sioners of Education: the nomination of master rests
with the lord-lieutenant. The school-house, erected in
1819, at an expense of £800, is a spacious building;
calculated for the reception of 100 pupils, and beautifully
situated on a lawn bounded by a branch of the Erne,
and surrounded with an amphitheatre of hills. The
income arising from the endowment is £641. 13. 5. per
annum, out of which the master receives a salary of
£400, and the remainder is appropriated to the repay-
ment of a loan from Government for the buildings.
Several parochial and Sunday schools are supported by
subscriptions; and a handsome school-house has been
erected in the town, in which a school is supported by
Lord Farnham. The count infirmary is a plain build-
ing capable of receiving 52 patients. There is an alms-
house for a poor widow, supported by private subscrip-
tion. In Swellan lake, about a quarter of a mile from
the town, have been found, at different times, some of
the largest horns of the elk that have been discovered
in Ireland. The celebrated Dr. Sheridan, the friend and
correspondent of Dean Swift, was for many years mas-
ter of the royal school of this place, and was frequently
honoured with visits from the dean; a bower in the
garden, called Swift’s bower, is still in existence.—See
URNEY.
CECILSTOWN, a village, in that part of the parish
of Castlemagner, which is within the barony of Du-
HALLOW, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER,
5½ miles (W. N. W.) from Mallow; containing 331 in-
habitants. It is situated on the road from Mallow to
Kanturk, and consists of 46 houses, of which the greater
number are thatched. Here is a national school, and a
penny post to Mallow has been established. Aconstabu-
lary police force is stationed here; and petty sessions
are held in the school-house every Monday. Cecilstown
has a patent for four fairs annually, but they are not
now held.—See CASTLEMAGNER.
CELBRIDGE, or KILDROUGHT, a market and
post-town, and a parish, partly in the barony of SOUTH
SALT, but chiefly in that of NORTH SALT, county of
KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 4¼ miles (N. N.E.)
from Naas, and 11 (W. by S.) from Dublin; containing
2421 inhabitants, of which number, 1647 are in the
town. This town, pleasantly situated on the left bank
of the river Liffey, over which is a handsome stone
bridge, and on the turnpike road from Dublin to Pros-
perous, is indebted for its origin to the Limerick family,
from whom it was purchased by the Rt. Hon. W. Co-
nolly, speaker of the Irish House of Commons, whose
representative. Col. E. M. Conolly, is the present pro-
prietor. It consists principally of one street; the
houses, about 270 in number, are in general well built;
the inhabitants are amply supplied with water. The
woollen manufacture was carried on to a considerable
extent, and a very large range of building was erected
in 1805, comprising all the requisite machinery for that
manufacture in its various branches; the works were
put in motion by a water wheel of 200-horse power,