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Counties Wicklow, Carlow & Wexford, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Moyacomb
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
For civil registration references (vital records) or to see surnames associated with this parish
Carlow BMD refs - Enniscorthy BMD refs - Shillelagh BMD refs
Moyacomb Civil Parish (Carlow section) Griffiths Primary Valuation Name Index 1852
Clonegal Roman Catholic Parish Baptismal INdex 1833 & Donohoe/Mahan to 1843
MOYACOMB, or CLONEGAL, a parish, partly in the barony of SHILLELAGH, county of WICKLOW, partly in that of SCARAWALSH, county of WEXFORD, but chiefly in that of ST. MULLINS, county of CARLOW, and province of LEINSTER, on the road from Tullow to Newtownbarry, and on the river Derry ; containing with the post-town of Clonegal and the village of Johnstown, 4877 inhabitants.
It comprises 28,204 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, of which
9347½ are in Wicklow, 9287½ in Wexford, and 9569 in Carlow. The
portion in the county of Wexford includes the estate of Abbeydown, containing
452 plantation acres, which has been tithe-free from time immemorial, and is considered
extra-parochial. The soil is varied, and there are some patches of bog : the state
of agriculture is gradually improving. A slate quarry has been lately opened on
Gibbet hill, near Johnstown. Several fairs are held at Clonegal
; it is also a station of the constabulary police, and contains an old castellated
mansion of the Esmonde family.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Ferns, and in the patronage of the La Touche family : the tithes amount to £850. The church, in the town of Clonegal, is a good modern building, erected in 1819, for which the late Board of First Fruits granted a loan of £1300; and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £186 for its repair.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is chiefly in the diocese of Kildare and Leighlin, and, together with the parish of Barragh, constitutes the union or district of Clonegal, containing the chapels of Clonegal and Kildavin ; the remainder of the parish is in the diocese of Dublin, forming part of the union or district of Arklow, and containing the chapel of Ballyfad, near Johnstown.
There is a meeting-house for Methodists at Clonegal.
In
the parochial school, supported by the rector, and in the national school at Clonegal
about 210 children are educated ; and there are now about 30 children in a private
school. At Abbeydown are the remains of an ancient religious house, of
which no account is extant.
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