DYSART, or DISERT, a parish, partly in the barony of IRAGHTICONNOR, but chiefly in that of CLANMAURICE, county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER, 6 miles (S. S. W.) from Listowel, on the river Brick ; containing 631 inhabitants.
It comprises 3608 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, including some excellent land. There is a considerable portion of bog, affording fuel of good quality : the state of agriculture is gradually improving.
Ballinagar is the seat of the representatives of the late John Barnard, Esq.
The parish is in the diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe ; the vicarage forms part of the union of Aghavallin, and the rectory is impropriate in Anthony Stoughton, Esq. The tithes amount to £133. 16s. 10d., payable in moieties to the impropriator and the vicar ; and at Ballinagar is a glebe of 13 acres.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it is partly in the union or district of Listowel, but chiefly in that of Lixnaw, or Iveamore.
About 70 children are educated in a private school.
The ruins of
the ancient church still remain in the burial-ground. Ennismore, the
residence of J. F. Hewson, Esq., gives the titles of Baron and Viscount
to the family of Hare, Earls of Listowel.
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