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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilfithmone or Fithmone
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
KILFITHMONE or FITHMONE a parish, in the barony of ELIOGARTY,
county of TIPPERARY, and province
of MUNSTER, 4 miles (S.W.) from Templemore, on the road
from Cashel town
to Burris-o-leigh; containing 673
inhabitants.
It comprises
1388 statute acres, of which about three-quarters are arable and one-quarter
pasture land; there is a bog of about 50 acres, and plenty of limestone.
Fithmoyne
is the seat of R. Minchen Carden, Esq.; and Ballinlonty,
of M. Fogarty, Esq.
The living
is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese
of Cashel, united by act of council, in 1789, to the rectories
and vicarages of Barnane and Killoskehan,
and in the patronage of the Archbishop: the tithes amount to £100,
and of the union to £315. The church was rebuilt in 1821, for which
the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £500. The same
Board, in 1794, gave £100 towards the erection of the glebe-house:
the glebe comprises 19 acres.
About 60
children are educated in a public school.
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