Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Harristown (Irish: Baile Anraí) is a townland in County Kildare on the River Liffey 2.5 miles (4.0 km) downstream from Kilcullen, just north of Brannockstown in the civil parish of Carnalway in the barony of Naas North. It was formerly a borough and manor, and Harristown Borough was a borough constituency sending two MPs to the Irish House of Commons before the Acts of Union 1800. The townland was a part of the demesne of Castlemartin House and Estate which was sold by the Eustace baronets to the first Duke of Leinster, and resold by his son to the La Touche family, who built Harristown House there. In 1684 (regnal year 33), Sir Maurice Eustace obtained a royal charter from Charles II incorporating Harristown as a borough, comprising 100 acres (40 ha). The borough was a rotten borough with "not one house and but one tree inhabiting". The 1684 charter also established a manor of Harristown, with a court leet, court baron and court of record for 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of land in the townlands of Harristown, Dunstown, Carnalway, Milltown and others. In 1837, Samuel Lewis described Harristown as "an inconsiderable village", though there was an Irish Constabulary barracks there."@en }
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- Harristown,_County_Kildare abstract "Harristown (Irish: Baile Anraí) is a townland in County Kildare on the River Liffey 2.5 miles (4.0 km) downstream from Kilcullen, just north of Brannockstown in the civil parish of Carnalway in the barony of Naas North. It was formerly a borough and manor, and Harristown Borough was a borough constituency sending two MPs to the Irish House of Commons before the Acts of Union 1800. The townland was a part of the demesne of Castlemartin House and Estate which was sold by the Eustace baronets to the first Duke of Leinster, and resold by his son to the La Touche family, who built Harristown House there. In 1684 (regnal year 33), Sir Maurice Eustace obtained a royal charter from Charles II incorporating Harristown as a borough, comprising 100 acres (40 ha). The borough was a rotten borough with "not one house and but one tree inhabiting". The 1684 charter also established a manor of Harristown, with a court leet, court baron and court of record for 4,000 acres (1,600 ha) of land in the townlands of Harristown, Dunstown, Carnalway, Milltown and others. In 1837, Samuel Lewis described Harristown as "an inconsiderable village", though there was an Irish Constabulary barracks there.".