PIGOT'S DIRECTORY 1824. J'""IFFORD .... Under the patronage .of the Earl of Erne and before the Union sent two members t!O the Irish Parliament. The County Infirmar~ i:s much too small for the Coumty. In the reign of Chas. 1 it wa£ 1a barrack for 1a troop of horse; it was purchased from the gov·ernment by Richard Cowan Esq., and afterwards sold to the 1county for the present purpose. A ne1w gaol, now building is expected to be finished in the early part of 1825; it will be 1a spaciiaus ·semi cirlC'ular edifice, and will add much to the beauty or the town; the courthouse is 1adjacent..... In the reign of ~as. 11 Sir Richard Han:sad Bart of Lincolnshire bequeathed £50 p. a., and a house for the education of the poor of the parish. Lifford is remarkable for the vigorous resistance made by Capt. Hamil, with 1a ~mall body of men against 1a detachment of Jas. ll's army previous ito the seige of Derry . . ..pop. 400.. Pom Office .at Strabane. GENTRY John Chambers A.'1drew Cl!arke Rev. Robt. Foster PROFESSIONS Geo. Knox, Esq. Rev. Wm. Knox, Rector Mrs. Spence \V:m. M. Spence, Esq. Mrs. Stever.son. Irwin Aiken, land surveyor. Richard Chambers, attorney. Adam Gillespie, surgeon to Sariah Risk. Paul Scanlen. In- Pat Scanlen. firmary. Gabriel Montgomery, veyor. J"'INEN ME.RCHANT 1Wm. Ch!ambers. PUBLICANS AND CO. Andrew Clements. J1os. Sherkey, parish clerk. la~d sur- John Sherkey. Jos. Sherkey. SALT MANUFA:CTURER.S John Moohan. R,AFIIOE .... made tan episcopal see by St. Eur:.an abou:t the middle of the sixth century. In the eleventh 1century the cathedral was erected ·on the ruins of the church ;Of St. Eunan, a.:id in 1636 Bishop Le13lie, aided by the g\avernment, built the· paiace, 6.r raither 366.
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