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County Meath, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Ballymagarvey
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
1840's
Irish Historical /Genealogical Maps - Past Homes Ltd. U.K.
BALLYMAGARVEY, a parish, in the barony of UPPER DULEEK, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 6 miles (S.) from Slane; containing 401 inhabitants.
This parish is situated on the Nanny-Water (river); the soil is fertile, the land in a high state of cultivation and there are several flourishing plantations, which add to the pleasing character of the surrounding scenery.
Ballymagarvey, the seat of Mrs. Osborne; Balrath of Mrs. G. Tandy; Snugborough of Lawrence Cruise Smyth, Esq.; and Mullafin, the property of H. Smith, Esq.; are in the parish. There is a flour and a corn mill.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Meath, and is part of the union of Kentstown; the rectory is impropriate in the heirs of Sir Andrew Alymer. The tithes amount to £140, of which £90 is payable to the impropriators, and £50 to the vicar. The glebe comprises 4 ¼ acres of profitable land, valued at £2 10s., per acre.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions, it is the head of a union or district called Blacklion,
comprising the parishes of Ballymagarvey, Painstown, Ardmulchan, Brownstown,
Kentstown and Tymole, and containing two chapels at Blacklion
and Yellow Furze; the former is a plain thatched building. There is
a pay school, in which are about 20 children
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