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Allen, Bog of, a bog of great but undefined extent, Leinster. The name generally applies to the whole series of bogs between the Slievebroom mountains and the parallel of Mullingar, and specially to the east broken portion of the series, which lies in the NW. of co. Kildare, and thence expands W. into King's co.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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Feature Description: | "a bog of great but undefined extent" (ADL Feature Type: "wetlands") |
Place names: | ALLEN | ALLEN BOG OF | BOG OF ALLEN |
Place: | Bog of Allen |
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