1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ATHY (pronounced Athy), a market-town of Co. Kildare, Ireland, in the south parliamentary division, 45 m. S.W. of Dublin on a branch of the Great Southern & Western railway. Pop. of urban district (1001) 3599. It is intersected by the river Barrow, which is here crossed by a bridge of five arches. The crossing of the river here was guarded and disputed from the earliest times, and) the name of the town is derived from a king of Munster killed here in the 2nd century. There are picturesque remains of Woodstock Castl…
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