BALLYOVEY, a parish, in the barony of CARRA, county of MAYO, and province of CONNAUGHT, 6¼ miles (N.by W .) from Ballinrobe ; containing 4025 inhabitants.
This parish, which is pleasantly situated on the borders of Loughs Mask and Carra, and on the high road from Castlebar to Ballinrobe, comprises 19,823 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. The surface is mountainous, and there are extensive tracts of bog: the lands now in cultivation are principally under tillage.
The scenery
is boldly varied: in the bosom of the mountains is Tarmacady, the summer
lodge of Dean Plunket; and Partree,the seat of J. Lynch,
Esq., is beautifully situated on
Lough Carra.
It is a rectory
and vicarage. in the diocese of Tuam, partly appropriate to the prebend
of Killabegs in the cathedral church of St. Mary, Tuam, and partly
included in the union of Burriscarra : the
tithes amount to £162, of which £23. 5s. 2¾d ., is payable
to the prebendary of Killabegs, and the remainder to the incumbent. There
is neither church, glebe-house, nor glebe.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it forms a separate benefice, called Partree ; there are two chapels, one at Partree, a small thatched building, and the other In the mountains at Ballybannon, a spacious slated edifice.
There are six
pay schools, in which are about 340 children.
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