Connaught

[ kon-awt ]

noun

1. a province in the NW Republic of Ireland. 6,610 sq. mi. (17,120 sq. km).

Connaught

/ ˈkɒnɔːt /

noun

1. another name for Connacht

Example Sentences

Thus they had secured a monopoly in Munster and an effective competition with us in poor Connaught.

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Fitzwilliam announced that Connaught would soon be quiet, for there would be no one left to resist the rebels.

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Athlone Castle was actually entered by the rebels, and Connaught was left to its own devices.

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They came out of Ulster and traversed Connaught in companies of twenty at a time.

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In Connaught and other Irish districts ‘the godly,’ as the few Protestants esteemed themselves, thought it prudent to hide.

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