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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Donoughmore
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
DONOUGHMORE,
a parish, in the barony of IFFA and OFFA EAST, county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, 4½ miles (N.) from Clonmel,
on the road to Thurles; containing 456 inhabitants.
It
comprises 1085 statute acres; there are some bogs and marshy land. and also
some portions of uncultivated ground, which are susceptible of improvement
and might be easily reclaimed. Limestone abounds in the parish, and is quarried
exclusively for burning into lime, which is the principal manure.
The
living is a rectory, in the diocese of Lismore, united, by act of council
in 1805, to the rectory of Kiltigan, together constituting the union and corps
of the prebend of Donoughmore in the cathedral of Lismore, in the patronage
of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £138 9s. 3d, and the tithes of the
union to £232 3s.1d. The glebe-house was built by aid of a gift of £350
and a loan of £450 from the late Board of First Fruits, in 1818: the
glebe comprises 13a.2r.20p. The church has been in ruins from time immemorial,
and the protestant parishioners attend the church of Lisronagh, about
two miles distant.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district
of Powerstown.
The
remains of the church, which may possibly have been the church of a monastery
said to have existed here at a very remote period, and of which St. Farannan
was the first Abbot, consist chiefly of an exterior and interior arch richly
sculptured with mouldings and embellished with grotesque ornaments; they are
of the later Norman style, and have sustained much injury from time and dilapidation.
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