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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Killodiernan
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILLODIERNAN a parish, in the barony of LOWER ORMOND, county
of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER,
5 miles (N.) from Nenagh, on the river Shannon; containing
1348 inhabitants.
It comprises
3476 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, generally light
land and in tillage. There is a constabulary police station at Puckane.
The principal
seats are Rockvalley, the residence of W. Molloy, Esq.;
Blackfort, of W. Minnett, Esq.; the Lodge, of W.
Studdart. Esq.; a fishing lodge of the Very Rev. Gilbert Holmes,
Dean of Ardfert, beautifully situated on the banks of the Shannon;
and Johnstown Park, the large and finely situated residence of
J.S. Prendergast, Esq., in a well planted demesne of about 200
acres, commanding fine views of the Shannon.
The living
is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Killaloe, and in the
patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £231 15s. 4¾d.
The church is a neat edifice, built in 1811 by aid of a gift of £800
from the late Board of First Fruits, and has been recently repaired by
a grant of £100 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. There is
a glebe-house, with 22 acres of glebe.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district
of Monsea, and has a chapel at Puckane.
About 200
children are educated in four private schools.
On the townland of Urragh are the remains of a castle, and in the demesne of Johnstown Park are the ruins of an ancient chapel, with a burial-ground attached, which is still used.
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