Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kanturk

Kanturk, market town and ry. sta. (at Banteer, 3½ miles S.), Clonfert, Kilroe, and Castlemagner pars., N. co. Cork, on rivers Allua and Dallua, 24 miles NW. of Cork, pop. 1859; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Saturday. Kanturk gives the title of viscount to the Earl of Egmont.


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

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Feature Description: "market town and railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Cork IrlC
Place: Kanturk

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