BALLYNEMARA,
or BALLINAMARA, a parish, in the barony of CRANAGH, county
of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 2½ miles
(S. s. E.) from Freshford, on the
road from Kilkenny city to Johnstown
; containing 867 inhabitants.
It comprises
3755 statute acres of tolerably good land, of which about two-thirds
consist of pasture land, and one-third is under tillage.
The living is a vicarage; in the diocese
of Ossory, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of St.
Canice, Kilkenny, to whom the rectory is appropriate; the tithes amount
to £240, of which £160 is payable to the appropriators,
and £80 to the vicar. The church is a plain modern building. There
is neither glebe-house nor glebe.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the
union or district of Freshford. The
parochial school is held in the vestry-room of the church; and there
is a private pay school, in which are about 70 boys and 20 girls.
The late Robt. Lanigan, Esq., bequeathed £100 for the erection
of two houses for two poor widows, who are to have a small annual allowance,
and preparations are in progress for carrying his intentions into effect.
