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Tankardstown Civil Parish, County Laois, Ireland
TANKARDSTOWN - A parish , partly in the barony of Ballyadams, Queens' county and partly in that of Kilkea and Moone, county of Kildare, province of Leinster, 3 miles (S.) from Athy (Co. Kildare), on the road to Carlow; containing 1918 inhabitants.
It is situated on the river Barrow, and comprises 8938 statute acres, as apploted under the tithe act, and valued at £4056 per annum.: within its limits are some quarries for limestone. The state of agriculture is progressively improving, and the barrow navigation affords a facility for the conveyance of its products to Waterford.
The seats
are Kilmoroney, the improved and very handsome residence of the
very Rev. Dean Trench;
Farm H??: Geo. Evans Esq., and Leinster Lodge of
J.P. ??? Esq.,
The parish is in the Diocese of Dublin, and the rectory and vicarage forming part of the union of Athy; the tithes amount to £325.19.4.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it is also part of the union of Athy.
About 120 children are educated in a school under the educational board; and there is a private school in which there are about 30 children. On the margin of the river Barrow is a Danish rath.