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County Wexford, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Kilcavan or Kilkevan
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILCAVAN, or KILKEVAN, a parish, in the barony of BARGY, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 11½ miles (S. W.) from Wexford town, on the new road to Bannow ; containing 695 inhabitants.
It is bounded on the east by St. George's channel, and is almost entirely under tillage ; the system of agriculture has been greatly improved within the last few years, and from the convenience of its situation for obtaining sea-manure the land is generally in a good state of cultivation.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Ferns, episcopally united, in 1806, to the vicarage of Bannow, together forming the union of Kilcavan, in the patronage of the Bishop : the tithes amount to £144. 13s. 3½d., and of the union, to £297. 4s. 7d. The church, for the repair of which the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently granted £190, is a neat edifice with a square tower, erected in 1820, for which the late Board of First Fruits gave £600 and lent £130. The same Board also gave, in 1821, £400 and lent £330 for the erection of the glebe-house : the glebe, in four portions, comprises 4½ acres.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district
of Bannow or Ballymitty.
At Granstown is a convent of Augustine Friars, representing the ancient
house of Clonmines, to which is attached
a chapel, open to the public ; this establishment consists only of two brethren,
employed in preparing pupils for the college of Maynooth, and in this seminary
the late eminent Dr. Doyle received the rudiments of his education.
A Sunday school
is superintended by the incumbent, and there is a dispensary.
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