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County Meath, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Balfeighan
description
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
BALFEIGHAN, a parish, in the barony of UPPER DEECE, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 1 mile (N.) from Kilcock (Co. Kildare); containing 155 inhabitants.
It is situated on the road from Kilcock to Summerhill, and is one mile and a half in length and one mile in breadth.
Piercetown, the residence of T. Cullen, Esq., is within its limits ; and the Royal Canal runs through the southern verge of the parish.
It is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, and forms part of the union of Raddonstown : the tithes amount to £87 – 13s. 9½d.
In the R. C.
divisions it is part of the district of Batterstown. There are some
remains of the old church.
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