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County Waterford, Ireland

CIVIL PARISHES

Kilwatermoy

description from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837

KILWATERMOY, a parish, in the barony of COSHBRIDE, county of WATERFORD, and province of MUNSTER, 2 miles (S. E.) from Tallow, on the river Blackwater; containing 2527 inhabitants. The surface is in general mountainous.

The principal seats are Moor Hill, the residence of W. Moore, Esq. ; Sapperton. of S. Moore, Esq. ; and Headborough, of the Rev. Percy Scott Smyth. These are handsome seats surrounded with plantations and ornamented with the river Bride, over which there is a wooden bridge. Here is also Janeville, the property of A. Keily, Esq.

It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore, forming part of the union of Tallow ; the rectory is impropriete in the Duke of Devonshire. The tithes amount to £265. 16s. 11d., of which £177. 4s. 7 ½ d., is payable to the impropriator, and £88. 12s. 3 ½ d., to the vicar. A handsome church was erected about 1831 by a gift of £900 from the late Board of First Fruits.

In the R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of Knockamore, and contains a chapel.

There is a parochial school of 25 children under the superintendence of the vicar, to which Stephen Moore, Esq., contributes £30 annually ; also a private school of about 35 children. Near the site of the old church is a natural cavern.

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