Ireland

(irland,) [anc. ERIN and IERNE; L. HIBERNIA, ] a large island of Europe,-of which it forms the extremeW. limit,-forming a division of the United King. dom of Great Britain and Ireland, and surrounded N.W. and S. by the Atlantic Ocean; on the N.W. it is sep a rated from Scotland by the North Channel, and E. and S.E. from England and Wales, by the Irish Sea and St. [s. 491]