King's County, an inland Irish county on the left bank of the Shannon, between Tipperary and West Meath; is mostly flat, a quarter of it bogland and a quarter under crops; the chief towns are Tullamore (5), the county town, on the Grand Canal, and Birr or Parsonstown (4), where Lord Rosse's great telescope is.
Population (circa 1900) given as 66,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
King's Counsel * Kingsley, Charles