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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.
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