Castlebar, the capital of County Mayo, Ireland, on the Castlebar River, 152 miles NW. of Dublin by rail. It has a market for agricultural produce, is a barrack station, and has a lunatic asylum. Here the Irish in 1641 massacred the English garrison. In 1798 the French general, Humbert, held the town for a fortnight. Pop. 3558.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 817
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