KILFEARA a parish, in the barony of SHILLELOGHER, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 2½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Kilkenny city, on the river Nore ; containing 58 inhabitants.
Here is a constabulary police station. Kilfeara is the seat of H. Ryan, Esq, and Sheestown, of J. Shee, Esq. ; in the demesne of the latter is a villa, the property and occasional residence of J. Power O'Shee, Esq.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory, forming part of the union of Burnchurch ; the rectory is impropriate in Lady Tynte Caldwell, to whom the whole of the tithes, amounting to £39. 6s. 1d., are paid
In the demesne
of Sheestown are the ruins of an ancient church, which is the burial-place
of the Shee family
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