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County Limerick
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Grange or Granshaw
description from Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837
See Newcastle Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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GRANGE, or GRANSHAW, a parish, in the Glenquin Division of the barony of UPPER CONNELLO, county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, 2 miles (N.E.) from Newcastle, on the road to Ballingarry; containing 721 inhabitants.
This parish comprises 2828 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. The land is very good, and much of it is under an excellent system of tillage; the remainder is rich meadow and pasture, principally in large dairy farms. The river Deel, over which there is a curious old bridge, passes through the parish, the entire of which was formerly the property of the Courtenay family, but the greater part was sold during the life of the late Earl of Devon.
The seats are Knockaderry, the residence of J. D. Evans, Esq.; Chesterfield, of Major Sullivan; and Dromin House, of Nicholas Meade, Esq.
It is a rectory, in the gift of the Earl of Devon: the tithes amount to £180, and there is a glebe of five acres.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district of Knockaderry.
The ruins of
the old church are beautifully situated on the river Deel.
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