Emo, Queens County
Historical Description
EMO, a village, in the parish of COOLBANAGHER, barony of PORTNEHINCH, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (E.) from Maryborough, and 34¾ (W. S. W.) from Dublin, near the high road to Maryborough; containing 14 houses and 102 inhabitants. Here are the R. C. chapel (a neat building), a public school, and a constabulary police station. Adjoining the town is Emo park, formerly Dawson's Court, the splendid mansion of the Earl of Portarlington. -See COOLBANAGHER.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1840 by Samuel Lewis
Directories & Gazetteers
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Land and Property
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