Portarlington, a market-town of Ireland, partly in King's County, partly in Queen's County, on the Barrow, 44 miles by rail SW. of Dublin. It was granted by Charles II. to the Earl of Arlington; and here William III. planted a colony of French and Flemish Protestants. Until 1885 it returned one member to parliament. Pop. 2357.
Portarlington,
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