KILMOGANNY,
a parish, in the barony of KELLS, county of KILKENNY,
and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (S. W.) from Knocktopher,
on the road from Kilkenny city
to Carrick-on-Suir ; containing 2107 inhabitants, of which number,
514 are in the village.
During
the parliamentary war a party of Cromwell's troops had a skirmish
here with the Walsh party, of Castlehall, which they defeated,
and seized the estate. Wm. III. passed a night at Rossenarre,
on his way to Limerick.
The parish
comprises 7381 statute acres, including about 500 acres of woodland
and a large tract of mountain; it contains slate, limestone, freestone,
and flagstone; also a mill. A patent for two fairs exists, but they
are not much frequented. The village contains about 100 houses, which
are generally handsome and well built ; it Is a constabulary police
station and has patty sessions and a dispensary : near it is a large
nursery of forest trees.
Rossenarre,
the residence of W. Morris Reade, Esq., is an elegant seat in
a demesne of about 600 acres, about 200 of which are planted.
The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of
Ossory, and in the patronage of the Incumbent of Knocktopher.
The tithes amount to £300. There is a glebe-house, for the erection
of which the late Board of first Fruits, in 1819, gave £450 and
lent £50 : the glebe comprises 5 acres. The church, which is a
handsome structure, was built in 1830 by a loan of £750 from the
same Board.
In the
Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union
or district of Donamagan, and
has a chapel.
There
is a public school of about 50 children, supported by W. W. Reade,
Esq., also two private schools of about 150 children, and two Sunday
schools.
There
are remains of castellated residences of the Walsh family at
Castlehill, Clone, and Kerehill ; also some chalybeate
springs
