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Counties Limerick & Tipperary
Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Cullen
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
See Tipperary Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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Note:
Whilst Lewis places Cullen as being partly in County Limerick in 1837, it
is NOT listed as being part of County Limerick in 1851. In 1851, Cullen
civil parish is given as being in County Tipperary only.
CULLEN,
a parish, partly in the barony of CLANWILLIAM, county of TIPPERARY,
and partly in that of COONAGH, county of LIMERICK,
and province of Munster, 4 miles (N.W.) from Tipperary town; containing
1412 inhabitants, of which number 498 are in the village, which was formerly
a market-town, but is now an inconsiderable place. here is a constabulary
police station; and two fairs are held, one moveable, either in May or June,
the other on Oct. 29th.
The
living is a rectory, in the diocese of Emly, united from time immemorial
to the rectories of Solloghodmore and Solloghodbeg, and the
vicarage of Toughcluggin, together forming the union of Cullen,
in the patronage of the Archbishop of Cashel. The tithes of the parish amount
to £122 7S. 6½ d., and of the union, to £591 5s. 7¼
d. The glebe-house was built by aid of a gift of £100 and a loan of
£900, in 1819, from the late Board of First Fruits; there are three
glebes in the union, comprising together 45¼ acres. The church is a
plain building.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district
of Lattin; the chapel is a small building.
The
parochial schools, in which about 20 boys and 10 girls are educated, are supported
by the incumbent, and about 120 children are taught in two hedge schools.
In
a small bog has been found a great number of interesting relics of remote
antiquity, an account of which was furnished to the Society of Antiquaries,
in 1774, by Governor Pownall, and which is inserted in their Archaeologia.
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