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County Waterford, Ireland
CIVIL PARISHES
Rathgormuck or Rathcormuck
description
from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
RATHGORMUCK,
or RATHCORMUCK, a parish in the barony of UPPERTHIRD, county
of WATERFORD, and province of MUNSTER, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from
Carrick-on-Suir ; containing 2252 inhabitants.
This parish,
which takes its name from an ancient rath, is situated on the confines of
the county of Tipperary, and contains a constabulary police station.
It is a vicarages
as in the diocese of Lismore, forming part of the union of
Mothell ; the rectory is impropriate in the
Duke of Devonshire. The tithes amount to £408. 7s. 6d. of which
£241. 4s., is payable to the impropriator, and £167. 3s. 6d.,
to the vicar.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions it is part of the union
of Mothell, or Rathgormuck, arid contains a chapel.
About 10 children
are taught in a school supported by an annual donation from Lady Osborne;
and there are two private schools, in which are about 130 to children.
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