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County and Louth
Operated by Iarnród Éireann, the Dublin Suburban Rail network consists of five railway lines serving the Greater Dublin Area and commuter towns such as Drogheda and Dundalk in County Louth.
Some private rural operators exist, such as Halpenny's in Blackrock, County Louth, which was the first private bus operator to run a public service in Ireland, Bus Feda ( Feda O ' Donnell Coaches ), which operates twice daily routes from Ranafast, County Donegal to Galway and back, and Lough Swilly Bus Company.
Under the Local Government Provisional Order Confirmation Act 1976, part of the urban area of Drogheda, which lay in County Meath, was transferred to County Louth on 1 January 1977.
This resulted in the land area of County Louth increasing slightly at the expense of County Meath.
In addition to Clonmel and Dublin, his family also lived in, among other places, Wicklow Town, Annamoe ( County Wicklow ), Drogheda ( County Louth ), Castlepollard ( County Westmeath ), and Carrickfergus ( County Antrim ).
* June 10 – Braganstown massacre, County Louth, Ireland: over 160 killed.
Drogheda (; ; ) is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin.
As the River Boyne divides the dioceses of Armagh and Meath, Drogheda was founded as two separate towns, Drogheda-in-Meath ( for which a charter was granted in 1194 ) and Drogheda-in-Oriel ( or ' Uriel ') as County Louth was then known.
Drogheda continued as a County Borough until the setting up of County Councils, through the enactment of the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898, which saw all of Drogheda, including a large area south of the Boyne, become part of an extended County Louth.
With the passing of the County of Louth and Borough of Drogheda ( Boundaries ) Provisional Order, 1976, County Louth again grew larger at the expense of County Meath.
For local elections to Louth County Council, the town forms part of two local electoral areas-Drogheda East ( 6 ) and Drogheda West ( 4 ).

County and Volunteers
MacNeill was briefly convinced to go along with some sort of action when Mac Diarmada revealed to him that a shipment of German arms was about to land in County Kerry, planned by the IRB in conjunction with Roger Casement ; he was certain that the authorities ' discovery of such a shipment would inevitably lead to suppression of the Volunteers, thus the Volunteers were justified in taking defensive action ( including the originally planned manoeuvres ).
In County Wexford, some 100 Volunteers led by Robert Brennan, Seamus Doyle and J R Etchingham took over Enniscorthy on Thursday 27 April until the following Sunday.
In the west, Liam Mellows led 600 – 700 Volunteers in abortive attacks on several police stations, at Oranmore and Clarinbridge in County Galway.
39th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Company K, Walker County Volunteers
However, as the war progressed, many Dekalb County families fought for Union cavalries, notably, the First Tennessee and Alabama Independent Vidette Cavalry and the First Alabama Cavalry United States Volunteers.
Doniphan would join a company of Clay County men and command the 1st Missouri Mounted Volunteers Regiment during the Mexican-American War.
FitzGerald senior, whose father had emigrated as a labourer from Skeheenarinky in County Tipperary, had joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and fought during the 1916 Easter Rising.
Following his education MacEntee worked as an engineer in Dundalk, County Louth, and was involved in the establishment of a local corps of the Irish Volunteers in the town.
When MacNeill learned about the IRB's plans, and when he was informed that Roger Casement was about to land in County Kerry with a shipment of German arms, he was reluctantly persuaded to go along with them, believing British action was now imminent and mobilisation of the Volunteers would, at this stage, be a defensive act.
** 57 City and County of Bristol ) Signal Squadron ( Volunteers )
** 265 ( Kent and County of London Yeomanry ( Sharpshooters )) Support Squadron ( Volunteers )
* 57 ( City and County of Bristol ) Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals ( Volunteers )
** 57 ( City and County of Bristol ) Signal Squadron ( Volunteers )
** 265 ( Kent and County of London Yeomanry ( Sharp Shooters )) Support Squadron ( Volunteers )
He has been Chair of the Board of the County Sports Partnership for Leicestershire since 2004 and also Chairs the National Strategic Partnership for Volunteers in Sport.
He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and organised a Volunteers group in County Kerry.
" Asgard " was Childers's last, and most famous, yacht: in June 1914 he used it to smuggle a cargo of 900 elderly but serviceable Mauser Model 1871 rifles and 29, 000 rounds of black powder cartridge ammunition to the Irish Volunteers movement at the fishing village of Howth, County Dublin ( later known as the " Howth gun-running ").
Following the outbreak of World War I in August, and the successful placement of the Home Rule Act on the statute books ( albeit with its implementation formally postponed ), Redmond made a speech in Woodenbridge, County Wicklow on September 20, in which he called for members of the Volunteers to enlist in an intended Irish Army Corps of Kitchener's New British Army.
During the Rising, one unit of the National Volunteers ( in Craughwell, County Galway ), offered its services to the local RIC to help suppress the rebellion in that area.
Therefore McCullough was to lead Volunteers in his area to Dungannon, County Tyrone, from where they would link up with Liam Mellows in Connacht.
* Middlesex County Volunteers, an 18th century colonial fife & drum corps in the Greater Boston area, Massachusetts, USA
In addition to its imposing setting, it boasts two 18th century organs, a peal of ten bells and a number of works by notable craftsmen of the era, including the Colours of the County Down Battalion of Carson's Ulster Volunteers.

County and shot
In attempting to arrest members of the Kent family in County Cork on 2 May, a Head Constable was shot dead in a gun battle.
In County Cork between 1920 and 1923 the IRA shot over 200 civilians of whom over 70 ( or 36 %) were Protestants: five times the percentage of Protestants in the civilian population.
In 1955, having shot three films, Cagney bought a farm in Stanfordville, Dutchess County, New York, for $ 100, 000.
On 4 April 2006, Donaldson was found shot dead at his retreat near Glenties in County Donegal.
Scenes were filmed near Evans City, Pennsylvania, north of Pittsburgh in rural Butler County ; the opening sequence was shot at the Evans City Cemetery on Franklin Road, south of the borough.
In the year 1810 by Porta Giulia, a gate of the town at Borgo di Porto ( Cittadella ), Andreas Hofer was shot ; he had led the insurrection in the County of Tyrol against Napoleon.
* May 4, 1956: in Prince George's County, Maryland, 15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School in Prince George's County after he had been reprimanded from the school.
On 20 November 1983, three members of the congregation in the Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, Darkley near Keady, County Armagh were shot dead during a Sunday service.
Many scenes for the film were actually shot in and around the village of Cong, County Mayo, on the grounds of Cong's Ashford Castle.
On March 6, 1978, during a legal battle ( see below ) related to obscenity in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Flynt and his local lawyer, Gene Reeves, Jr., were shot by a sniper in an ambush near the county courthouse in Lawrenceville.
The cropduster sequence, meant to take place in northern Indiana, was shot on location on Garces Highway ( 155 ) near the towns of Wasco and Delano, north of Bakersfield in Kern County, California ().
A film based on the incident was made, but not shot in Levy County.
On December 7, 1987, Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashed in San Luis Obisop County after a passenger shot 5 people on board, including the pilots, then intentionally crashed the plane.
Stonewall Jackson was shot and mortally wounded in Spotsylvania County during the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Butler County has often been used as a setting for films shot in the North Pittsburgh area.
Several Hollywood films have been shot in Taliaferro County.
* Kyle Dinkheller, a deputy with the Laurens County Sheriff's Office who was shot to death on January 12, 1998, during a traffic stop in Dudley
Parts of the film Smokey and the Bandit were also shot in and around Clayton County, namely in Jonesboro, as evidenced by a sign in the background of one of the scenes.
On the morning of October 3, four people were shot within a span of approximately two hours in Aspen Hill and other nearby areas in Montgomery County.
On October 7, at 8: 09 a. m., Iran Brown, a 13-year-old boy, was shot — accounts vary between the lower body, stomach and chest — as he arrived at the Benjamin Tasker Middle School at 4901 Collington Road in Bowie, Maryland, in Prince George's County ( Brown's name was concealed from the public but was later revealed ).
Bloody Mama was shot in and around Mountain Home ( Baxter County ) and Little Rock ( Pulaski County ).
In 2012, a Stanislaus County Sheriff Department officer stun-gunned and shot an unarmed man.

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