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Cowgate
The Cowgate (Scots: The Cougait) is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, located about 550 yards (500 m) southeast of Edinburgh Castle, within the city's World Heritage Site. The street is part of the lower level of Edinburgh's Old Town, which lies below the elevated streets of South Bridge and George IV Bridge. It meets the Grassmarket at its west end and Holyrood Road to the east.
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Cowgate
The Cowgate is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, located about 5 minutes' walk from Edinburgh Castle, within the city's World Heritage Site. The street's name is recorded from 1428, in various spellings, as Cowgate and in 1498 as "Via Vaccarum" and is derived from the fact that cows were herded down it for Edinburgh's market days in previous centuries The street is part of the lower level of Edinburgh's Old Town, which lies below the elevated streets of South Bridge and George IV Bridge. Consequently the Cowgate can be quite gloomy and dark in sections. It adjoins the Grassmarket at its west end and Holyrood Road to the east. Although the area is now partly restored, and several new buildings have been constructed, from the mid 18th century until after the World Wars the Cowgate was a notoriously overcrowded slum area, where the majority of the city's Irish immigrant community was based. Among others, the Irish Socialist leader and revolutionary James Connolly was born in 1868 at number 107, and was executed following his role as a leader of the Easter Rising, an attempt to bring about Irish independence. In the late 19th century the area was known locally as 'Little Ireland'. Hibernian, the famous Edinburgh professional football club, was founded by congregants of St Patrick's RC Church on the Cowgate in August 1875. The club was based from St Patrick's until the early 1890s, and cups the club won from this period can still be seen displayed in the church.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cowgate in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
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The numerical value of cowgate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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