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County Kildare
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Carnalloway or Carnalway
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
See Naas Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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Carnalway Civil Parish, Griffiths Primary Valuation Name Index
CARNALLOWAY, or CARNALWAY, a parish, in the barony of SOUTH NAAS, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 4½ miles (S by W.) from Naas ; containing 1291 inhabitants.
It is bounded on the south by the river Liffey, which separates it from the parish of Old Kilcullen, and is on the turnpike road from Naas to Dunlavin. During the disturbances of 1798, a battle was fought at Nineteen-mile-House, in this parish, between a party of the insurgents and a detachment of cavalry. The parish comprises 3408 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: the lands are chiefly under tillage; the soil is good, and the system of agriculture much improved; there is no waste land, but a large quantity of bog.
The
living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, and in the
patronage of the Bishop and of Robert La Touche, Esq ; the former having
one, and the latter three turns. the tithes amount to £226. 3s.1d. The church,
a very neat edifice with a tower and spire, was built by the late John La Touche,
Esq., and contains a tablet to the memory of Capt. Cooke, who fell
while charging the insurgents at Kilcullen bridge, in 1798. The late Board
of First Fruits grauted £100, in 1810, towards the erection of a
glebe-house;
attached to which are 10 acres of glebe.
In the Roman Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Newbridge.
There
is a parochial school, built by the late John La Touche, Esq., and supported
by R. La Touche, Esq., affording instruction to about 80 children; and
a school, in which are about 50 boys and 40 girls, is aided by an annual donation
from the R. C. clergyman. There are also a private school, in which are about
10 boys and 10 girls, and a Sunday school. In that part of Kilcullen which
is in this parish
are a fever hospital and a dispensary.
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