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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Fenor
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
Note: Roman Catholic parish records for those parishes that belong to the Diocese of Cashel and Emly are not available to the public
FENNOR,
a parish, in the barony of SLIEVEARDAGH county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, 2½ miles (S.) from Johnstown,
on the mail coach road from Dublin by Cashel
to Cork; containing 2073 inhabitants.
This
parish, which is bounded on the north and west by the bog of Allen
and a small stream separating it from the barony of Eliogarty, comprises
5674 statute acres, which, with the exception of a considerable tract of bog,
is chiefly under tillage. In the bog of Allen, and in this parish, is one
of those verdant spots called islands, containing about 60 acres of excellent
pasturage for sheep: the substratum of the island is limestone, but of almost
every other part of the parish, freestone. The small river, at a very trifling
expense, might be greatly improved by deepening the shallow parts, and would
thus afford a facility for draining the bog, and supply abundance of water
for turning the several mills upon its banks. Some limestone of a blue colour
is worked for agricultural uses, but the general manure is a compost of lime
and clay.
Poyntstown,
the property of Phanuel Cooke, Esq., is in ruins. here is a constabulary
police station.
The
living is a rectory, in the diocese of Cashel,
forming the corps of the prebend of Fennor, in the cathedral of Cashel,
in the patronage of the Archbishop: the tithes amount to £489 4s. 7½
d. The glebe-house was erected by aid of a grant from the late Board of First
Fruits; the glebe comprises 25 acres. The church is a neat modern structure,
rebuilt by aid of a gift of £800 from the same Board, in 1815.
In
the Roman Catholic divisions the parish is part of the union or district
of Gurtnahoe, or Buolick.
About
250 children are taught in three public schools, of which the parochial school
is aided by a donation of 10 per annum from the incumbent.
The
ruins of the old castles of Fennor and Graigue Padeen are in
the parish, in which are also the remains of the old church, and several Danish
raths.
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