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CIVIL PARISHES
Ballyvalden
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
BALLYVALDEN, a parish, in the barony of BALLAGHKEEN, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 12½ miles (S. by W,) from Gorey; containing 1379 inhabitants.
It is situated near the eastern coast, and comprises 2338 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Ferns, held with the impropriate curacies of Kilmuckridge and Millenagh ; and in the patronage of the Bishop ; the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Portsmouth. The tithes amount to £179 7s. 9d., of which £112 6s 2½d., is payable to the impropriator, and £67 1s. 6½d., to the vicar. The church of the union is at Kilmuckridge.
In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Blackwater.
There are three hedge schools, in which about 170 children are educated
Blackwater
village, Ballyvalden parish
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