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CIVIL PARISHES
Killesk - Shelburne barony
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILLESK, a parish, in the barony of SHELBURNE, in the county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 7 miles (S. E.) from New Ross; containing 1009 inhabitants, and 2812 statute acres.
It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ferns, and patronage of Lord Templemore, granted in 1702, in augmentation of the impropriate curacies of Dunbrody, St. James, and Rathroe: the tithes amount to £312 7s 4d., and there is a glebe of about two acres.
In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Suttons.
About 30 children are educated in a private school. Here are some remains of a castle, said to have been built by Hervey de Montemarisco.
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