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Slatey,
Sleaty or Sletty Civil Parish, County Laois, Ireland
SLATEY,
SLEATY or
SLETTY, a parish, in the barony of SLIEUEMARGUE,
QUEEN'S county,
and province of LEINSTER, 1¼ miles (N.N.W.) from
Carlow; containing 189 inhabitants.
This
parish, which is situated on the river barrow, comprises 656 statute
acres as apploted under the tithe act, and valued at £728
per annum.
Knockbeg
is the residence of W. Carruthers Esq., and here is also
that of Gerald byrne, Esq.,
The
living is a rectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, united to
that of Shruel, and in the patronage
of the Bishop; the tithes amount to £60 and the gross valueof
the benefice is £106.3s. 1d.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union
or district of Killeshin.
Here
is a hedge school of 10 boys and 4 girls.
St.
Fiech is said to have founded a church and bishoprick here,
in the fifth century, the latter of which was afterwards transferred
to leighlin; in the churchyard are two stone crosses of remote antiquity,
and there are ruiuns of a small church called Slieb-teach, or “The
Hosue near the Mountains”, which is said to have been originally
a place of great importance.
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