description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

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Dungarvan Civil Parish Griffiths Primary Valuation Name index, 1849

DUNGARVAN, a parish, in the barony of GOWRAN, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (S.) from Gowran on the road from Dublin to Waterford ; containing 1784 inhabitants, of which number 75 are in the hamlet.

The parish comprises 9134 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and is a constabulary police station.

The living is a vicarage in the Diocese of Ossory, and in the patronage of the Crown ; the rectory is appropriate in J. Hamilton Bunbury, Esq. The tithes amount to £480, of which £320 is paid to the Impropriator and £160 to the vicar. The glebe house was erected in 1813, by aid of a gift of £400 and a loan of £400 from the late Board of First Fruits : there is a glebe of 15 acres. The church is a small plain building erected by aid of a gift of £800, in 1812, from the same board and lately repaired by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, at an expense of £283.

In the Roman Catholic divisions, this parish forms part of the union or district of Gowran, and contains a chapel.

The parish school is supported by the incumbent, and there are three pay schools, in which about 300 children are instructed.

Here is a very large moat, also the ruins of a square castle at Neiglam

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