DUNGARVAN,
a parish, in the barony of GOWRAN, county of KILKENNY,
and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (S.) from Gowran
on the road from Dublin to Waterford ; containing 1784
inhabitants, of which number 75 are in the hamlet.
The parish
comprises 9134 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and
is a constabulary police station.
The living
is a vicarage in the Diocese of Ossory,
and in the patronage of the Crown ; the rectory is appropriate in J.
Hamilton Bunbury, Esq. The tithes amount to £480, of which
£320 is paid to the Impropriator and £160 to the vicar.
The glebe house was erected in 1813, by aid of a gift of £400
and a loan of £400 from the late Board of First Fruits : there
is a glebe of 15 acres. The church is a small plain building erected
by aid of a gift of £800, in 1812, from the same board and lately
repaired by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, at an expense of £283.
In the
Roman Catholic divisions, this parish forms part of the union
or district of Gowran, and contains
a chapel.
The parish
school is supported by the incumbent, and there are three pay schools,
in which about 300 children are instructed.
Here is
a very large moat, also the ruins of a square castle at Neiglam
