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CIVIL PARISHES
Ballyconnick
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
BALLYCONNICK, a parish, in the barony of BARGY, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 7½ miles (s. w.) from Wexford town, on the road to Bannow; containing 510 inhabitants.
In a return to a royal visitation held in 1615, it was designated Ballycormick, and returned as a chapel to the prebend of Taghmon. The parish comprises 1445 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe. act, and is chiefly in tillage.
It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ferns, and is part of the union and corps of the prebend of Taghmon, in the cathedral of Ferns: the tithes amount to £95 1s.1d.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it is included in the union or district of Rathangan and Clarestown. (See Duncormuck)
A parochial school, in which are about 80 boys and 20 girls, is supported by subscription.
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