Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Borris, or Borris-Idrone

Borris, or Borris-Idrone, vil. with ry. sta., Clonygoose par., in co. and 17 miles S. of Carlow, 75 miles SW. of Dublin by rail, pop. 617; P.O., T.O. Market-day, Thursday. Borris Castle, the seat of the Kavanaghs, is in the vicinity.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Carlow IrlC
Place names: BORRIS     |     BORRIS IDRONE     |     BORRIS OR BORRIS IDRONE
Place: Borris

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