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County Kildare
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Carne or Carna
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
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CARNE, or CARNA, a parish, in the barony of EAST OPHALY, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (S. E) from Kildare town; containing 550 inhabitants.
It is situated on the road from Athy to Newbridge, and is in the diocese of Kildare. The rectory is appropriate to the dean and chapter of Kildare, who possess 178 statute acres of land in the parish ; and the vicarage forms the corps of the precentorship of that cathedral, in the patronage of the Bishop, but is at present sequestrated in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The tithes amount £90, of which £81.9s. 6d., are payable to the dean and chapter, and £8. 10s. 6d., to the precentor. There is no church or glebe-house, but a glebe of ten acres.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions this parish is the head of a union or district
called Sancroft, comprising the parishes of Carne, Ballysonan,
Killrush, and Ballysax ; the chapel at Sancroft
is a large building, and there is a national school there in which about 40 boys
and 30 girls are educated.
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