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County Sligo, Ireland
Villages
Bellaghy
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
BELLAGHY, a village, in the parish of ACHONRY, barony of LENEY, county of SLIGO, and province of CONNAUGHT, 10 miles (s. w.) from Ballymote, on the on road to Swinford (county Mayo); containing 34 houses and 170 inhabitants.
A market for
provisions is held on Wednesday and a fair is held every month: the market-house
is
situated in the centre of the village. Here is a station of the constabulary
police.
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