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Housing Units (2000): 65
Land area (2000): 2.054231 sq. miles (5.320433 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.048173 sq. miles (0.124767 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.102404 sq. miles (5.445200 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12124
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 45.374840 N, 95.678315 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56226
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Headwords:
Clontarf
Wikipedia
Clontarf may refer to:
Placenames:- Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
- Clontarf, Queensland, a suburb of the Moreton Bay Region, Australia
- Clontarf, Queensland (Toowoomba Region), a locality in the Toowoomba Region, Australia
- Clontarf, New South Wales, Australia
- Clontarf, Minnesota, United States
- Battle of Clontarf, 1014
- Clontarf (ship), New Zealand immigration ship of 1858-60
- Clontarf (whiskey), an Irish brand
- Clontarf Foundation, an Australian non-profit educational foundation for indigenous students.
- Clontarf Aboriginal College, the current name of a former orphanage in the Perth suburb of Waterford in Western Australia.
Clontarf 1014 is a triple distilled Irish whiskey produced by the Clontarf Whiskey Company, a subsidiary of Castle Brands Inc. Originally called "Clontarf," the whiskey takes it name from the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 in which Brian Boru, the High King of Ireland, defeated an army of Vikings.
The brand has launched several marketing initiatives, including one in 2008 and most recently in 2011, when new packaging was released to highlight the 1000 year anniversary of the battle of Clontarf. Clontarf 1014 is 40% abv.
The Clontarf was an immigration clipper ship which sailed from England to New Zealand between 1858 and 1860 on commission for the Canterbury Provincial Government. Sailing under the flag of Willis, Gann and Co, its first voyage sailed from Plymouth 20 September 1858, and after a journey of 105 days arrived at Lyttelton, New Zealand on 5 January 1859 with 412 immigrants. With one successful run complete it returned to England to collect its next passengers. On 30 November 1859 the Clontarf left London with 430 people on board. This voyage met with unforgiving bad weather, and a rampant plague of measles, whooping cough and tropical diseases swept mercilessly through the ship. It arrived at Lyttelton after 105 days with many fatalities. On a normal voyage for any other immigration ship of that time it was expected that up to five people may die from frailty, accident or birth at sea. On the second voyage of the Clontarf 41 people died including five adults, but also 36 children, and that was to give Clontarf her infamy. Due to her reputation immigrants chose not to sail on her again, and she was officially dismissed of her duties of ferrying immigrants to New Zealand in 1861.
Usage examples of "clontarf".
Here is a torc that Brian Boru put on my arm with his own hand before Clontarf Take it.
The two old soldiers' baldrics held broadswords with pierced steel baskets, while that of the florid, mule-mounted man was weighted down with a cross-hilted brand that would not have looked out of place on the First Crusade or at the Battle of Clontarf and thus blended well with his archaic armor.
Duffy was trying hard to be impressed by the sight, and imagine himself as one of his own ancestors facing such northern barbarians in Dublin Bay or on the plain of Clontarf, but these weary old men languidly hacking at the canal weed put a damper on his imagination.