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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Burrisleigh, Borris-O-Leigh or Two Mile Borris
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
Note: Roman Catholic parish records for those parishes that belong to the Diocese of Cashel and Emly are not available to the public
BURRISLEIGH or TWO-MILE BURRIS, a parish, in the barony of ELIOGARTY, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, 3 1/2 miles (S.S.E.) from Thurles ; containing, with the town of Littleton, 3020 inhabitants.
This parish is situated at the junction of the roads leading respectively from Johnstown to Cashel, and from Killenaule and Thurles to New Birmingham; it comprises 7988 statute acres , as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at 5702 per annum. Within its limits is a small portion of the Bog of Allen, and the river Liscaveen forms a boundary between it and the parish of Ballymoreen. The village, which is small, is the property of Sir Hugh Nugent O'Reilly, and is only remarkable for the ruins of a church and castle, and the remains of a Danish fort, all within a few yards of each other.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Cashel, united from a period prior to any known record to the vicarages of Boly or Galvoly and Drom, and the chapelry of Leogh, together constituting the union of Burrisleigh and the corps of the treasurership in the cathedral of Cashel, in the patronage of the Archbishop: the tithes amount to 600, and of the benefice to £738. 1s.6 1/2d. The church is a handsome edifice, partly in the later English style, and was enlarged by aid of a loan of 1000 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1820; and another loan of £923 was granted for its repair in 1828. There is a glebe-house, with a glebe of 30 acres, the latter subject to a rent; in the parish of Drom is also a glebe of 42a.1r.19p., statute measure, leased at £30.9s.3d., with a renewal fine of £6.10s. per annum.
In the Roman Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Moykarkey.
The
parochial school is supported by the rector, who contributes 20 per annum;
and another school is maintained by private subscription. In these schools
about 90 boys and 50 girls are instructed; and there are three pay schools,
in which are about 100 boys and 80 girls.
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