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CIVIL PARISHES
Chapple or the Chapel of St. Clements
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
CHAPPLE
(or the Chapel of St. Clement), a parish in the barony of BANTRY,
county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 6 miles (S. S. W.) from
Enniscorthy: containing 827 inhabitants.
It is situated on the mail coach road from New Ross to Enniscorthy, and contains 3747 statute acres, which are chiefly under tillage. The soil is in general light and poor, and the state of agriculture has undergone but little improvement.
At Boro Hill is the seat of Jeremiah Fitzhenry, Esq.
The living is an impropriate curacy, in the diocese of Ferns, and is part of the union of Killegney; the rectory is appropriate to the bishoprick. There is a glebe of 16 acres, and the tithes amount to £173 10s. 9d.
In the R.C. divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Templeudigan also called Killegney: the chapel a neat building is at Clogbawn or Cloughbawn, in this parish and was erected soon after 1798, partly by a loan from the Government.
Near it is the
national school, built in 1816 by Lord Carew who has endowed it with
four acres of land, and allows £15 per annum to the master. No less
than 84 young men, who have been educated in this school have subsequently
become schoolmasters. About 120 boys and 30 girls are taught in the school
and about 70 more children in three private schools
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