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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilcash
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILCASH a parish, in the barony of IFFA and OFFA EAST, county
of TIPPERARY, and province of MUNSTER,
6¼ miles (E.N.E.) from Clonmel;
containing 1333 inhabitants. It is on the southern side of Slieve na
Man, and contains an ancient seat of the Ormonde family.
The living
is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore, united episcopally, in
1813, to the vicarages of Killaloan, Templethay,
and Kilgrant, and in the patronage of
the crown; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde.
The tithes amount to £113 7s. 3d., of which £46 3s. 1d., is
payable to the impropriator, and £67 4s. 2d., to the vicar; and
the entire tithes of the benefice are £267 1s. 10d. The church is
a modern building. There is no glebe-house: the glebe comprises 8a.2r.17p.,
and there is also one of 3a.1r.30p. in Kilgrant.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions, it forms part of the union or district of
Gammonsfield, or Kilcash, and has a chapel at Ballypatrick.
About 170
children are educated in a public school; the school-house was given by
the Marquess of Ormonde. Here is a dispensary.
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