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| FERMOY, COUNTY CORK.- The fine town of Fermoy, in the eastern portion of the county Cork, stands chiefly on the right bank of the Munster Blackwater, nineteen miles northeast from Cork city. In the Gaelic tounge, according to Professor Joyce, it is called Feara-muighe-Feine, shortened, according to O'Heevin, to Feara-Mueghe-"the Men of the Plain," and anglicized "Fermoy." |
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