Dingle and Lakes of Killarney, in Kerry.. Three in number-Upper, Middle, and Main Basin

Lower (or Lough Leane); total area, about 10 square miles. All are celebrated for their romantic scenery, and are much visited on that account.

The word lough, by which they are distinguished (like the similar term loch in Scotland), is applied equally to inland lakes or to estuaries, or salt-water inlets.

* The native name of Ireland is Erin, or Ierne. Hibernia, the name by which, according to Strabo, the country was known among the Romans, is derived from hiver, winter, because, from their meagre knowledge of the country, they considered it to be a cold and dreary one.

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The thirty-two counties into which Ireland is divided are always spoken of as "counties," and not "shires." For example, we say "County " and not Corkshire.

Cork,"
These are the Royal Belfast Academy, with nineteen professors, and about four hundred students; and Queen's College, opened in 1849, which
has twenty-two professors.

*Were so named by Bloody Mary, in honour of herself and husband, whose names are retained in Philipstown, Maryborough, &c.