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Counties Kildare & Offaly (King's county)
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Kilbracken or Ballybracken (aka Ballybrackan)
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
See Athy Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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KILBRACKEN,
or BALLYBRACKEN, a parish, partly in the barony of UPPER PHILIPSTOWN,
an isolated portion of KING'S COUNTY, and partly in that of WEST OPHALY,
in the county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER,
3¼ miles (S. E.) from Monastereven, on the road to Athy;
containing 1216 inhabitants.
It
comprises 2747 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at
£1542. 5s., per annum. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the
diocese of Kildare, and in the patronage of the Marquess of Drogheda:
the tithes amount to £138. 9s. 3d.
About
100 children are educated in the parochial school.
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