Moyanna,
a parish in the barony of Stradbally, Queen's
County and province of Leinster, 1 mile (N.) from Stradbally,
on the road to Monastereven (Co. Kildare); containing
1695 inhabitants.
The
parish comprises 5697 statute acres, of which 65 are woodland.
The state of agriculture has improved greatly, the progress of
which has been promoted by quantities of excellent limestone her;
and its vicinity to the southern branch of the Grand Canal affords
great facility for posing of the produce. James Grattan, Esq.,
M.D. who has a pretty shooting lodge here has erected a handsome
ridge over the Barrow at Dunrally fort. A party of the
constabulary police is stationed at Vicars
Town (Vicarstown).
It
is a rectory and a vicarage, in the Diocese of Leighlin;
the rectory is impropriate in the Provost and Fellows of Trinity
College, Dublin, and the Vicarage forms part of the Union
of Stradbally. The Tithes amount to £417.8.4,
of which two thirds are payable to the impropriators and the remainder
to the vicar.
In
Roman Catholic divisions it also forms part of the union
of the district of Stradbally;
it is in contemplation to build a chapel at the village of Vicarstown.
In
the National school at Moyanna, and a school at Vicarstown
supported by Mrs. Grattan, about 200 children are educated.
The church is in ruins.
