This page is part of an Irish genealogy web site 'From Ireland' ©Dr. Jane Lyons, Dublin, Ireland.
County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Bourney or Bourchin
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
BOURNEY
or BOURCHIN, a parish, in the barony of IKERRIN, county of TIPPERARY,
4 ½ miles (S.E.) from Roscrea; containing 4061 inhabitants.
This
parish is situated between the mail coach road from Dublin to Limerick,
and the public road from Roscrea to Templemore; and comprises
more than 9700 statute acres. The rivers Nore and Suir have
their rise here in the side of the mountain of Benduff. their respective
sources not being more than ½ mile distant from each other. The river
Nore peruses nearly a direct course through this parish and Corbally
into Burris-in-Ossary(Borris-in-Ossory);
the river Suir forms the southern boundary of this parish.
Dangan
Lodge is the seat of J. Middleton, Esq.; Derrylahan, of
J. Mason, Esq.; Mount Fresco, of Horatio Lloyd, Esq.;
and Lorn Park, of G. Roe, Esq. Here is a station of the constabulary
police.
The
living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Killaloe, to which the rectory
and vicarage of Burrisnefarney were
united by act of council, forming the union of Bourney, in the patronage
of the Bishop; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde.
The tithes amount to £550 of which £350 is payable to the impropriator,
and £200 to the vicar; and the gross tithes of the union payable to
the incumbent amount to £384 12s. 4d. The church is a plain building,
for the repairs of which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted
£246 8s. 9d. The glebe-house was built by aid of a gift of £350
and a loan of £450, in 1814, from the late Board of First Fruits: the
glebe comprises about six acres in four detached portions in this parish.
In
the R.C. divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, which
comprises also the parishes of Burrisnefarney
and Corbally, and contains four chapels,
all neat buildings, of which the principal is situated at Clonakenny,
in this parish.
There
is a place of worship for the Society of Friends at Knockbally Meagher.
The
parochial schools afford instruction to about 40 boys and 40 girls; and there
are also four private pay schools, in which are about 170 children.
At Boulebane, Bawnmadrum, and Clonakenny are considerable remains are considerable remains of ancient castles; the first two are situated on an eminence very near each other.
Back to Top - From Ireland Home page - Tipperary page - Lewis Tipperary Index
Main Lewis Index (all counties) - Irish Historical /Genealogical Maps - Past Homes Ltd. U.K.
Indices on
CD ROM/Books
Irish Flax Growers List - Tithe Applotment books - An Index to the Griffiths Valuation
A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards - A Guide to Irish Parish Registers
A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland - Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810
Irish Immigrants to North America - Irish Source Records -
Irish to America, 1846-1865 : Passenger & Immigration lists
New York, 1820-1850: Passenger & Immigration lists -
Emigrants from Ireland, 1847 -1852: State aided emigration from Crown estates
Ireland & Irish Emigration to the New World, 1815 to the Famine
The Search for Missing Friends. Irish Immigrant Advertisements placed in the Boston Pilot 1831-1920
Lewis CD: Lewis's Gazeteer of England, Ireland and Scotland
URL http://www.from-ireland.net
©Dr. Jane Lyons, Dublin & Co. Laois 2001-2004