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County Wexford, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Horetown
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
HORETOWN, a parish, in the barony of SHELMALIER, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 3½ miles (S. W.) from Taghmon, on the old road from New Ross to Wexford town ; containing 1149 inhabitants.
On the 20th of June, 1798, Gen. Moore, at the head of 1500 of the royal troops was intercepted at Goff’s-bridge, in this parish, by a body of 5000, or 6000 insurgents, which he repulsed with considerable loss.
The parish comprises 3977 statute acres and contains Horetown, the seat and extensive demesne of W. Goff, Esq. ; Tottenham Green, of the Rt. Hon. and Rt. Rev. Lord R. Ponsonby Tottenham, Bishop of Clogher, Rockview, of C. Heatley, Esq. ; and Rakeendun, of J Goff, Esq.
It is a rectory in the diocese Ferns, episcopally united, in 1759, to the rectory of Kilgarvan, the vicarages of Ballyingley, Donowney, and Inch, and the impropriate curacy of Ballylennon, together constituting the union of Horetown, in the gift of the bishop : the tithes amount to £213. 6s. 10d., and of the entire benefice to £530. 7s. 11¾d. There is neither glebe-house nor glebe. The church is a very neat building in the demesne of Horetown, and has recently been repaired by a grant of £108 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In its erection were used the remains of a Carmelite monastery, which was founded here in the 14th century by the Furlong family, and granted at the dissolution to Sir John Davies.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is in the unions or districts of Adamstown and Taghmon, and has a small neat chapel.
There are three private schools, in which about 230 boys are educated, and a Sunday school.
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