The Encyclopedia Americana (1906)/Munster, Ireland

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Mun'ster, Ireland, the southwest and largest of the four provinces of that country, bounded on the north by Connaught, on the east by Leinster, and on the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean. It has an area of 9,52I square miles and is divided into the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. Pop. (1901) 1,076,188.