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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilnerath or Newport St. John's
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
KILNERATH or NEWPORT (St. JOHN'S) a parish, in the barony
of OWNEY and ARRA, county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, 2 miles (E.) from Newport, on the
upper road to Nenagh; containing 2749 inhabitants.
It comprises
5147 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £4180
per annum; with the exception of an extensive tract of bog, affording
excellent fuel, the land is in general of good quality and in an improved
state of cultivation. The scenery is of very interesting character; the
banks of the river are bold and rocky, presenting some very striking features,
and masses of rock lying in its channel give an artificial rapidity to
its course.
The principal
seats are Castle Waller, that of R. Waller, Esq., pleasingly
situated in a tastefully embellished demesne; Oakhampton, the property
of Lord Bloomfield, and residence of S.W. Philips, Esq.;
and Rockvale, the property of the Rev. M. Moore. At Rockvale
are considerable flour-mills.
The living
is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cashel, united by
act of council to the rectories and vicarages of Kilcomenty,
Killoscully, and Kilvolane,
together constituting the union of Kilnerath, or St. John's
Newport, in the patronage of the Archbishop: the tithes amount to
£300, and of the entire benefice to £1407 16s.10½d.
There is a glebe-house, and the glebe of the union comprises 8½
acres. The principal church of the union is at Newport; there is
also a church in the parish of Killoscully.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions the parish is the head of two unions or districts,
one called Newport, comprising also parts of the parishes of
Kilvolane and Kilcomenty, in each of which is a chapel: and
the other called Ballynahinch, comprising also Killoscully,
in which latter parish is a chapel.
The chapel at Ballynahinch, to which a school-house is attached,
was built on ground given by Lord Dunally.
About 400
children are taught in four private schools. There are some remains of
the old church, and also of the chapel of Kilpatrick; near which
is a chalybeate spring, not much used.
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