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| VIEW OF BELLEEK, CO. FERMANAGH.- The beautiful "Belleek ware," which charms the eyes and warms the hearts of thousands of American housewives, comes from the charming little town situated in the county Fermanagh, on the lower expanse of Lough Erne, where it forms a fall over a ledge of rocks fourteen feet in height. As the fame of Belleek is widely established in this country, it may not be uninteresting to state that the name is derived from the Gaelic Bil-leice, which signifies "the Ford-mouth of the Flag-stone;" and is so called, says Dr. Joyce, "from the flat surfaced rock in the ford, which, when the water decreases in the summer, appears as level as a marble floor." |
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