DUNMORE, a parish, in the county of the city of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 3 1/2 miles (N.) from Kilkenny, on the road to Durrow; containing 875 inhabitants. It comprises 2264 statute acres, and has a constabulary police station.
The living is a vicarage, in thc diocese of Ossory, united with the vicarages of Muckalee and Kilmodum, and in the patronage of the Crown; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde The tithes amount to £ 175. 3., of which £85.3. is payable to the impropriator, and £90 to the vicar; the tithes of the union are £210. The glebe-house was erected in 1816, by aid of a gift of £350 and a loan of £450 from the late Board of First Fruits: the glebe comprises 22 acres. The church is a plain building, recently repaired by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, at an Expense of £114.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Muckalee.
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