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  • "I suppose you came all the way from Foxford just to sing for me!"

    Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd

  • The work of the Sisters of Charity at Foxford is well known, and stands in need of no praise, and at Kiltimagh, in

    Ireland and the Home Rule Movement Michael F. J. McDonnell

  • Afterwards came more carols, until Blue and Doodles had to hurry away lest they miss the last car to Foxford.

    Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd

  • The weedy roadside was a witching tangle of shadows, and the air was drowsy with spicy, wind-blown scents, as four motor cars swept on their merry way to Foxford.

    Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd

  • So Doodles rode to Foxford in Mr. Randolph's sumptuous roadster, to the astonishment of Blue whom he met not far from home.

    Polly and the Princess Emma C. Dowd

  • Foxford, Loughglynn, St. Lelia's, Limerick, Dundrum, and Roscarbery, are centres of much needed industrial life in their several localities.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Huguenot poplin that we have since Jacquard de Lyon and our woven silk and our Foxford tweeds and ivory raised point from the Carmelite convent in New Ross, nothing like it in the whole wide world.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • Foxford, beside Lough Conn, will gladden the hearts of those interested in philanthropic schemes for the benefit of "the very poor" in rural Ireland.

    The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909

  • The regular road from Killala to Castlebar lies through the village of Foxford, and a force of some twelve hundred men under General Taylor had been sent to hold this against the invaders.

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

  • That the said Mr. Glover had likewise Informacions from severall persons that they heard one George Crawford of Foxford say that he had seen Eight peices of Muslin with some of the Passengers which came out of the Sloop.

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

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