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Counties Cork & Waterford, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Leitrim
description
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
LEITRIM,
a parish, partly in the barony of COSH-MORE and COSHBRIDE, county of
WATERFORD, but chiefly in that of CONDONS
and CLONGIBBONS, county of CORK,
and province of MUNSTER 4 miles (E.) from Kilworth, on the north
side of the river Blackwater, and on the road from Fermoy to
Lismore ; containing 2032 inhabitants.
It comprises 6597 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £3826. 7s. 10d., per annum. Of the land, which is of variable quality, that portion situated on the banks of the river is the best : limestone, brownstone, and slate are found in this parish, of which the former is quarried for agricultural purposes, but the latter two are not worked.
The only seat is Kilmurry, the residence of Thos. St. John Grant, Esq., beautifully situated in the midst of some extensive improvements at the junction of the two counties, which are here separated only by a small glen stream and a mountain path.
It is in the diocese of Cloyne : the rectory is impropriety in Wm. Norcott, Esq., and the vicarage forms part of the union of Kilworth. The tithes amount to £460, payable in equal portions to the impropriator and the vicar.
In the Roman Catholic divisions it also forms part of the union or district of Kilworth.
About 80 children
are educated in two private schools. In the demesne of Kilmurry was discovered,
some years since, a number of human skeletons, which, combined with the word
‘Kil,’ has led to the inference that a church or sell to some religious
house formerly existed here.
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