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County Kilkenny, Ireland
Civil Parishes
Kilmocar (aka Kilmacar)
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
For civil registration references or to see surnames associated with this parish
1840's Kilmacar Site Centered Town Map at Past Homes
KILMOCAR, a parish, in the barony of FASSADINING, county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 3 ¼ miles (S. W.) from Castlecomer, near the river Nore ; containing 1413 inhabitants.
It comprises 4860 statute acres, of, which about two-thirds are arable and pasture, and the remainder mountains.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ossory and in the patronage of the Bishop ; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde. The tithes amount to £258 of which £170 is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it is partly in the union or district of Conahy, and partly in that of Ballyragget.
There are two private schools, in which about 120 children are educated.
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