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County Limerick
Ireland
Civil Parishes
Dromin
description from Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837
See Kilmallock Civil Registration District BMD refs (vital records)
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DROMIN, a parish, in the barony of COSHMA, county of LIMERICK, and province of MUNSTER, 2 miles (S.) from Bruff, on the roads from Limerick City to Cork City, and from Croom to Kilmallock; containing 1454 inhabitants.
This parish comprises 4007 acres, as applotted under the tithe act, the whole of which is fertile and well cultivated: about one-half is in tillage, the remainder being rich meadow and pasture land, on which great numbers of cattle are annually fattened. There is neither waste land nor bog; fuel is consequently scarce, and the poor suffer greatly for want of it.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Limerick, and in the patronage of John Croker, Esq., of Ballynaguard, being usually held with Athlacca; the tithes amount to £305.9.5., and the glebe comprises 24 acres.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is the head of a union or district comprising also Athlacca, and parts of the parishes of Uregare and Glenogra, and containing two chapels, one in Dromin, and one in Athlacca.
There is a private school, in which about 50 boys and 20 girls are taught.
The ruins of
Dromin church stand on an eminence near the middle of the parish, not
far from which are the remains of Meadstown castle, built by the sept
of O'Hanlon, in the fifteenth century, the walls of which are nearly
entire; it was dismantled by order of Cromwell in 1654. A part of this
castle is occupied by a farmer, and has acquired some modern celebrity by
being the birth-place of Daniel Well, Esq., author of the “Harmonies
of Poetry and Music”.
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