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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Drangan
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
DRANGAN, a parish, in the barony of MIDDLETHIRD, county of TIPPERARY, and province of Munster, 4 ½ miles (N.E.) from Fethard; containing 1804 inhabitants.
It comprises 5300 statute acres of tolerably good arable and pasture land, as applotted under the tithe act; and is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cashel, forming part of the union of Killenaule: the tithes amount to £325.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Cloneen; the chapel is a plain building.
There are four pay schools, in which are about 150 boys and 170 girls; and in the village is a constabulary police station
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