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Castlebrack
Civil Parish, County Laois, Ireland
CASTLEBRACK,
a parish in the barony of TINNEHINCH, QUEEN’S
county, and province of LEINSTER, 6 miles (W.N.W.)
from Portarlington; containing
1855 inhabitants.
This
parish, which is situated in the north east angle of the country,
where it joins King’s county (Offaly) and on the river
Oweness, derives its name from the castle now in ruins, which
was built by the Dunne family and was formerly a strong place
surrounded by a moat. Fairs are held on May 16th and Aug 12th.
It
is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, and is part of
the union of Rosenallis or Oregan;
the rectory is impropriate to Gen. Dunne. The tithes amount
to £210.2s.6d., of which £140.1s.8d., is payable to
the impropriator and the remainder to the vicar.
In
the Roman Catholic Divisions it forms part of the union or district
of Mountmellick. The chapel is
on the townland of Clonaghedor, where there is a national
school, in which are about 30 boys and 40 girls, and a hedge school
in which there are abot 30 boys and 20 girls.
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