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Cork - CIVIL PARISHES
Drumdowney Civil Parish
described in Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837
DRUMDOWNEY,
or DRUMDOWNA, a parish, in the barony of ORRERY and KILMORE,
county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER,
3 miles (w. by N.) from Mallow, near the road to Kanturk; containing
164 inhabitants.
This parish, which comprises only 356 statute acres, as applotted under the
tithe act, and valued at £489, 11 shillings 11 pence, per ann.
was formerly more extensive; but the remainder has merged into the adjoining
parish of Buttevant : a considerable portion of it is occupied by the
wood of Drumdowney. The land is good and chiefly in tillage; limestone is
in general use for manure, and the state of agriculture is improving.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cloyne,
and forms part of the union of Ballyclough
; the rectory is impropriate in Col. Longfield. The tithes amount to
£58. 10 shillings of which £28. 10 shilllings. is payable to the
impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar.
In the R C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Kilbrin,
also called Ballyclough.
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