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Guide to Killarney and Glengariff

Author: George Newenham Wright

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Text ID Number: E830001-001

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Notes

From the preface it is clear that Wright was only responsible for the part of this work dealing with Killarney. Other parts were updated from previous editions by the editors, but the names of the author(s) are not given.

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    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. Guide to Killarney and Glengariff, with six engravings, chiefly from the desgins of G. Petrie, Esq., and a map. George Newenham Wright New edition [133 pages] William Curry Jun. and Company,; Harry Drew, Grand Parade, CorkDublin/Cork (1834)

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Created: By one or more authors, among them George Newenham Wright (1833)

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