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County Waterford, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilsheelan
Counties Waterford & Tipperary
description
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILSHEELAN
a parish, partly in the barony of UPPERTHIRD, county of WATERFORD
but chiefly in that of IFFA and OFFA EAST, county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, 5 miles (W.N.W.) from Carrick-on-Suir, on
the road from Clonmel to Waterford;
containing 1531 inhabitants, of which number, 283 are in the county of
Waterford.
The village
comprises 57 houses and 290 inhabitants, and is a constabulary police station.
Here is a bridge over the river Suir.
The principal
seats are Newtown Anner, the residence of Lady Osborne; Landscape,
of ?? Congreve, Esq.; and Gurteen, of E. Power, Esq.,
of which only the stables are yet built. Adjoining the magnificent woods of
the demesne, which contains a cromlech, is a large ravine composed of strata
of red sandstone, white silicious sandstone, and soft slatey rock, which decomposes
into a pure yellow ochreous earth.
It is a vicarage,
in the diocese of Lismore, united to the rectory of Kilmurry,
and in the gift of the Marquess of Ormonde, in whom the rectory is
impropriate. The tithes amount to £380 11s. 11d, of which £250
7s. 2d., is payable to the vicar, and the remainder to the impropriator; the
tithes of the benefice amount to £754 19s. 1d.
In the R.C.
divisions it forms part of the union or district of Kilgrant
or Riverstown, and contains a chapel.
About 80 children
are educated in two schools, one of which is principally supported by Lady
Osborne. The late W. Power, Esq., of Ballydino, left 30
acres of land and 5,000 pounds for the establishment of an almshouse, which
is not yet finished. Here are some remains of the ancient church and of a
castle, also a large moat.
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