DUNKITT,
a parish, in the barony of IDA, county of KILKENNY, and
province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Waterford,
on the road to Thomastown ; containing 2637 inhabitants.
This parish
is situated near the river Suir, with which it communicates by
the Dunkitt pill, and comprises 6267 statute acres, as applotted
under the tithe act, The land is generally good, and is based on a stratum
of limestone, of which great quantities are quarried chiefly for exportation
to the county of Wexford by the river Suir, from which the pill
is navigable to the quarries.
The principal
seats are Mullinabro', that of J. Hawtrey Jones, Esq,
; Greenville, of A. Fleming, Esq.; and Bishop's Hall,
of Simon Blackmore, Esq,
The living
is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory,
united by act of council, at a period unknown, to the vicarages of Kilcollum
and Gaulskill, and in the patronage of the Crown; the rectory is
impropriate in the family of Boyd, The tithes amount to £553
16 shillings 11½ pence, of which £369. 4 shillings
7½ pence is payable to the impropriators, and £184, 12
shillings 4 pence to the vicar; and the vicarial tithes of the
union amount to £519. 12 shillings 3¾ pence. The glebe-house
was built by a gift of £200, and a loan of £600 from the
late Board of First Fruits, in 1817, and the glebe comprises 23¾
acres. The church of the union is at Gaulskill.
In the
Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union of Kilmacow
; the chapel is at Bigwood,
About
100 children are taught in a public school, and there are two private
schools, in which are about the same number.
