Knock, a village in County Mayo, Ireland, 17 miles ESE. of Castlebar, where an alleged luminous apparition of the Virgin appeared on the chapel wall in 1880. For a considerable time afterwards crowds of pilgrims flocked to the scene, and numerous miraculous cures were reported. Pop. of parish, 3241.
Knock,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 446
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