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Cork - CIVIL PARISHES
Desert Civil Parish
described in Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837
DESERT, a parish, in the barony of BARRYMORE, county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 1 ½ miles (S. E.) from Rathcormac ; containing 1141 inhabitants.
It is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cloyne, forming part of the union of Gortroe, into which parish it has entirely merged, and with which the tithes are returned.
In the R. C. divisions it is in the union or district of Rathcormac.
The schools
and further details are noticed under the head of Gortroe.
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