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County Offaly (King's Co.), Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Ballynakill
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
BALLYNAKILL, a parish, in the barony of COOLESTOWN, KING'S county, and province of LEINSTER, 3 miles (S. by W.) from Edenderry, on the road to Tullamore; containing 941 inhabitants.
It comprises
3668 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act: about one-fourth part
of the profitable land is arable, and the remainder is partly meadow and partly
pasture; there are large tracts of bog, besides a considerable quantity that
is exhausted; the state of agriculture is good. The Grand Canal passes
through the parish, and there are limestone quarries within its limits.
The gentlemen's seats are Ballymorin, that of D. Odlim, Esq.
; and Ballylekin, of F. Lee, Esq.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kildare, united to the
rectory of Clonsast ; the rectory is impropriate in Richard Garden,
Esq., of Bath. The tithes amount to £157. 16 shillings and
11 pence, of which £92.6 shillings 1 and ¾ pence is payable to
the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is partly in the union or district
of Edenderry, and partly in that of Clonsast or Clonbollogue.
There is a private pay school, in which about 25 boys and 20 girls are taught.
Here are the ruins of the ancient castle of Purefoy, one of the numerous
small square buildings erected in this part of the country to protect the
English pale.
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