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County Kildare
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Davidstown
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
See Athy Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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Davidstown Civil Parish, Griffiths Primary Valuation Name Index
DAVIDSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of NARRAGH and RHEBAN, county of KILDARE, and province of LEINSTER, 4½ miles (S. S. W.) from Kilcullen, on the road from Dublin to Athy; containing 1464 inhabitants. It is principally under tillage.
The rectory is appropriate to the see of Kildare, and the parish, which is in the diocese of Dublin, forms part of the impropriate curacy of Kilcullen: the tithes amount to £199. 7s. 4d.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it is within the union or district of Crookstown, called also Narraghmore.
There is a school at Calverstown under the Trustees of Erasmus Smith's charity, in which are about 30 boys and 40 girls.
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