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Dromineer Civil Parish, Tipperary County, IRELAND DROMINEER,
a parish, in the barony of LOWER ORMOND, county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, 5 miles (N.W.) from Nenagh, containing
561 inhabitants. This
parish, which is bounded on the east by Lough Derg, comprises
1672 statute acres of arable and pasture land. The
principal seats are Annabeg, the residence of J.R. Minnitt,
Esq.; Shannon Vale, of J. Odell, Esq.; and Hazel
Point, of Lieut. P.Bayly, R.N. It
is a rectory, in the diocese of Killaloe, and one of the parishes
that constitute the union of Ballynaclough:
the tithes amount to £110. In
the Roman Catholic divisions it forms part of the union or district
of Monsea. A
school, endowed by the Countess of Farnham with £30 per
annum, and an acre and a half of land, affords instruction to about
40 children; and about 80 more are taught in a private school. One of the principal stations of the Inland Navigation Company on the Shannon has been established near the castle of Dromineer, which is much dilapidated. Here is a Danish fort, occupying more than two acres, in the ditch surrounding which brass battle-axes, coins, large human bones, etc., have been discovered.
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