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County Offaly (King's Co.), Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Aghancon
description
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
AGHANCON, a parish, partly in the barony of CLONISK, but chiefly in that of BALLYBRITT, KING's county (Offaly), and province of LEINSTER, 3½ miles (N.) from Roscrea (Co Tipperary), on the road from Parsonstown(Birr) to Mountrath (Co. Laois); containing 1378 inhabitants.
It comprises 3000 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: the land is mostly poor, and the state of agriculture is not much improved; there is some bog, and gritstone used for building is found.
The principal seats are Leap Castle, the residence of H. Darby, Esq.; and Summer Hill, of F. Freeman, Esq.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Killaloe, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £150. The church is a neat edifice in good repair: it was built in 1786, at the joint expense of Dr. Pery, then Bishop of Limerick, and Jonathan Darby, Esq., with the aid of a gift of £390 from the late Board of First Fruits. The glebe-house was built by the late incumbent; the glebe comprises 15 acres.
The parochial
school, in which 22 boys and 17 girls are at present taught, is supported
by Mr. Darby; the school-house is a good slated building near the church.
There are also two private pay schools, in which are about 50 boys and 30
girls. The ruins of Ballybrit castle yet exist; and on the townland
of Garryhill is a mineral spring.
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