Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lea (or Ley)

Lea (or Ley), par., N. Queen's co., on Grand Canal and river Barrow, 18,488 ac., pop. 4838; contains Portarlington and ruins of a castle built in 1260 and destroyed by Cromwell's army.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Laoighis IrlC
Place names: LEA     |     LEA OR LEY     |     LEY
Place: Lea

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