Slatey, Sleaty or Sletty Civil Parish, Co. Laois (Queen's), Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons

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Laois, Queen's, Leix County, Ireland

Civil Parishes

Slatey, Sleaty or Sletty

descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

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Carlow BMD refs

1830's Maps of Ireland

Sleaty Civil Parish Griffiths Primary Valuation Name Index, 1850

SLATEY, SLEATY or SLETTY, a parish, in the barony of SLIEUEMARGUE, QUEEN'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 1¼ miles (N.N.W.) from Carlow; containing 189 inhabitants.

This parish, which is situated on the river barrow, comprises 656 statute acres as apploted under the tithe act, and valued at £728 per annum.

Knockbeg is the residence of W. Carruthers Esq., and here is also that of Gerald byrne, Esq.,

The living is arectory, in the diocese of Leighlin, united to that of Shruel, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the tithes amount to £60 and the gross valueof the benefice is £106.3s. 1d.

In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Killeshin.

St. Fiech is said to have founded a church and bishoprick here, in the fifth century, the latter of which was afterwards transferred to leighlin; in the churchyard are two stone crosses of remote antiquity, and there are ruiuns of a small church called Slieb-teach, or “The Hosue near the Mountains”, which is said to have been originally a place of great importance.