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Counties Tipperary & Offaly (King's Co.), Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Eglish
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
EGLISH, a parish, partly in the barony of LOWER ORMOND, county of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER, but chiefly in that of EGLISH, or FIRCAL, KING’S COUNTY (OFFALY), and province of Leinster, 3 miles (N.E.) from Parsonstown, on the road to Tullamore; containing 3290 inhabitants.
This parish is six miles in length by four in breadth, and comprises 7722 statute acres; there is a great deal of bog, and some limestone for building and burning.
Eglish castle is the residence of Captain English; Tullinisky, of Handy Dynelly, Esq.; Whigsborough, of R. Drought, Esq.; and here is the residence of Rev. W. Parsons.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Meath, forming part of the union of Fircall; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Downshire. The tithes amount to £148 12s. 3d., of which £96 18s. 5d., is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar: the glebe comprises 116a.2r.38p., the annual value of which is £99 8s. The church is a very old building.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is the head of a union or district, comprising also Drumcullin parish, in each of which is a chapel.
There are six
private schools, in which about 240 children are instructed
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