This page is part of an Irish genealogy web site 'From Ireland' ©Dr. Jane Lyons, Dublin, Ireland.
County Offaly (King's Co.), Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Ballycommon
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
BALLYCOMMON, a parish, in the barony of LOWER PHILIPSTOWN, KING'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 3½ miles (W.) from Philipstown, on the road from Dublin to Tullamore, containing 1226 inhabitants.
It comprises of about 6730 statute acres, of which 4244 are applotted under the tithe act: about 2503 acres are pasture, and 1743 arable land; and there are 2430 acres of bog, 50 of waste, and 5 or 6 of woodland.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Kildare, and in the patronage of the Crown; the tithes amount to £138. 9s. 2¾d. The church has been lately repaired by a grant of £335 from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The glebe-house was built by aid of a gift of £450 and a loan of £160, in 1817, from the late Board of First Fruits; the glebe comprises 3a.1r.15p.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Philipstown.
There is a school aided by private subscriptions, also a hedge school, in
each of which are about 40 children.
Back to Top - From Ireland Home page - Co. Offaly page - Lewis Offaly Index -
Main Lewis Index (all counties) - Irish Genealogy Research Services
Irish Historical /Genealogical Maps - Past Homes Ltd. U.K.
Indices on
CD ROM/Books
Irish Flax Growers List - Tithe Applotment books - An Index to the Griffiths Valuation
A Guide to Irish Churches and Graveyards - A Guide to Irish Parish Registers
A New Genealogical Atlas of Ireland - Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810
Irish Immigrants to North America - Irish Source Records -
Irish to America, 1846-1865 : Passenger & Immigration lists
New York, 1820-1850: Passenger & Immigration lists -
Emigrants from Ireland, 1847 -1852: State aided emigration from Crown estates
Ireland & Irish Emigration to the New World, 1815 to the Famine
The Search for Missing Friends. Irish Immigrant Advertisements placed in the Boston Pilot 1831-1920
Lewis CD: Lewis's Gazeteer of England, Ireland and Scotland
