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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Clogher
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
CLOGHER, a parish in the barony of KILNEMANAGH, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, 6 miles (S.W.) from Thurles; containing with the parish of Rathkenan, 2062 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the high road from Thurles to Tipperary town and comprises 6997 statute acres, as applotted under the Tithes act, and valued at £4,935 per annum. About one-half is good arable and pasture land, and the remainder, with the exception of a small portion of underwood, is mostly mountainous with some bog.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Cashel, united at a period unknown to the vicarages if Inshyanly and Dovea and the rectory and vicarage of Moykarkey together forming the corps of the chancellorship of Cashel, in the patronage of the Archbishop the rectory is impropriate in W. Moore, Esq. The tithes amount to £276 18s. 5 ½ d., of which two-thirds are payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the incumbent; and the amount of tithes for the union, payable to the chancellor, is £452 6s. 1 ¾ d. There is neither church nor glebe-house; the Protestant parishioners attend the church of Clonoulty; those of Inshyanly, the churches of Thurles and Templemore; and those of Moykarkey, that of Holy Cross. The glebe comprises 27 acres.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Clonoulty.
There is a pay-school, in which are about 140 children.
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