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Castlebar

British  
/ ˌkɑːsəlˈbɑː /

noun

  1. the county town of Co Mayo, Republic of Ireland; site of the battle (1798) between the French and British known as Castlebar Races. Pop: 11 371 (2002)

"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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We were in Castlebar, County Mayo, at the home of Rooney’s mother, Marie Farrell.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018

Ms. Rooney arrived at Trinity College, Ireland’s most elite university, from Castlebar in County Mayo, where her father worked as a technician for the state-owned telecom company.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2018

There, he played for the Castlebar Mitchels and won county championships in 1951 and 1952.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2018

There were some 300 at a meeting in Castlebar, Co Mayo on 22 April, at which the referendum was described as a “defining moment for our society”.

From The Guardian ● May 13, 2018

The French met the royalists at Castlebar, where the latter were disgracefully defeated.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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