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Queen's County

British  

noun

  1. the former name of Laois

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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On June 6, he ran his colt in Aqueduct’s Queen’s County Handicap despite a 132- pound impost.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

There were very many in the Queen's County, also in Kildare and Wexford.

From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Frazer, James George, Sir

Roger Byrne, who lived in Rosenalis, Queen's County, Ireland, died of excessive fatness at the age of fifty-four, weighing 52 stone.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Coming by devious ways, for divers reasons; coming from all quarters by every medium; centering at last at the Queen's County Jockey Club.

From Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course by Ferguson, W. B. M. (William Blair Morton)

Lord Lansdowne, besides this estate in Queen’s County, owns property in a wild, mountainous part of the county of Kerry.

From Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) by Hurlbert, William Henry

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