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Clonagheen
Civil Parish, County Laois, Ireland
CLONAGHEEN,
a parish, in the barony of MARYBOROUGH WEST, QUEEN'S
county, and province of LEINSTER, 3 1/4 miles (S. E. by S.)
from Mountrath: the population
is returned with the parish of Clonenagh.
It
is situated on the road from Dublin to Limerick, and
is bounded on the south-west by the river Nore, over which
is a neat bridge, here called the Poor Man's Bridge. There
is a large tract of valuable bog.
It
is a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, and is part of
the union of Clonenagh, for which
and Clonagheen there is but one composition of tithes.
The
schools are also noticed under the head of that parish.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union
or district of Mountrath
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