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Cork - CIVIL PARISHES
Desart Civil Parish
described in Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837
DESART, a parish, partly in the barony of IBANE and BARRYROE, and partly in the East Division of EAST CARBERY, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 1 mile (E. by S.) from Clonakilty; containing 744 inhabitants.
It is situated on the bay of Clonakilty, and comprises 582 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £401 per annum. Although elevated, about half of it is under tillage, principally for wheat and potatoes; and the remainder is mountain pasture.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ross, and forms part of the union of Kilgarriffe; the rectory is appropriate to the Dean of Ross. The tithes amount to £15, of which £40 is payable to the appropriator, and £35 to the vicar.
In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Clonakilty.
On an elevated
site near the shore are the ruins of a church, which measured only about 20
feet by 12.
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