DYSART, a parish, in the barony of FASSADINING, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 2¼ miles (S.) from Castlecomer, on the road to Kilkenny city ; containing 2501 inhabitants.

This parish is situated on the river Dinin ; and comprises 2606 statute acres.

It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, appropriate to the vicars choral of the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny ; the rectory is impropriety in the representatives of Sir James Tynte, Bart. The tithes amount to £300, of which £200 is paid to the impropriator, and £100 to the vicars choral. There is no church ; the parishioners attend divine worship at Mothell.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Muckalee.

About 90 children are educated in a public school.

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