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County Tipperary, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilgant or Powerstown
description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILGRANT or POWERSTOWN a parish, in the barony of IFFA
and OFFA EAST, county of TIPPERARY,
and province of MUNSTER, 1¾ miles (E.N.E.) from Clonmel,
on the high road from that place to Waterford, and the mail coach
road from Cork to Dublin; containing 1186 inhabitants.
It comprises 1749 acres, and is watered by the rivers Anner and Suir, over the latter of which is a stone bridge built at the expense of Sir Thomas Osborne, Bart. : and near the junction of the rivers are the extensive flour-mills and residence of Barclay Clibborn, Esq. The other seats are Annerville, the residence of ?? Riall, Esq.; Wilderness, of ??? Green, Esq.; and Redmonstone House, of ??? Quinn, Esq.
It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore, forming part of the union of Kilcash, or Killaloon; the rectory is impropriate in John Bagwell, Esq., and the tithes amount to £193 16s.10d., of which £129 4s. 6d., is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions it is the head of a union or district,
comprising this parish and those of Donoughmore,
Lisronagh, and Kilcash, and has one chapel at Gammonsfield
and another in Kilcash
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