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County Wexford, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Clonmore
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
CLONMORE a parish, partly in the barony of SHELMALIER, but chiefly in that of BANTRY, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (S. S. W.) from Enniscorthy: containing 1371 inhabitants.
This place anciently called ‘Cluain dicholla gairbhir,’ is of great antiquity; St. Maidoc having founded a monastery here in the 6th century, for canons of the order of St. Augustine, which in 740, was burnt. In 832 it was plundered by the Danes, and in 833 they burnt the abbey on Christmas night, killed many of the monks, and carried others into captivity. Dermot Mac Moilnambo, Lord of Kennselach, plundered and destroyed CLonmore in 1040, and in 1041 it met a similar fate from Donogh, the son of Bryan.
It is situated on the river Slaney, which is navigable for flat-bottomed lighters to Enniscorthy. The parish comprises 6987 statute acres of arable and pasture land. Good building stone is abundant in different places.
Wilton, the residence of H. Alcock, Esq., occupies the site of one of the ancient castles of the Furlongs, and is being remodelled, in the castellated style, considerably enlarged, and faced with fine white granite from Mount Leinster: in the park is a fine sheet of water, abounding with wild fowl, which has lately been enlarged and rendered ornamental. The other seats are Macmine Castle, the residence of Pierce Newton King, Esq., an ancient castellated mansion on the banks of the river Slaney; Merton, the property of T. A. Whitney, Esq.; Kilgibbon, of H. Alcock, Esq.; Birmount, a deserted mansion of the Leeson family; Clonmore, the seat of W. Woodcock, Esq.; and Birmount Cottage, the neat residence of J. Gethings, Esq.
It is a vicarage
in the diocese of Ferns, and is part
of the union of St. Mary, Enniscorthy; the rectory is impropriate to
the see. The tithes amount to £458 18s. 7½d., of which £305
19s. 1d., is payable to the bishop, and £152 19s. 6½d., to the
vicar. A neat church in the later English style of architecture, with an embattled
tower, was erected at Bree, in the year 1827, on a site given by H.
Alcock, Esq., by aid of a grant from the late Board of First Fruits; and
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £128 2s. 4d.,
towards its repair.
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