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County Wexford, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Killinick
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILLINICK, a parish, in the barony of FORTH, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 4½ miles (S.) from Wexford town, on the road to Rosslare ; containing 591 inhabitants.
It comprises 1254 statute acres, which are chiefly under tillage, and in a good state of cultivation : there is a quarry of shingle, which is used for repairing the roads. Coal and other commodities are brought up in cots from Wexford harbour, by an inlet which is navigable at spring tides. Some of the inhabitants on the banks of this inlet are engaged in fishing. Fairs are held in the village on Easter-Monday, Whit-Tuesday, April 8th, May 27th, Sept. 21st, and Nov. 30th. Petty sessions are held every fortnight or month, on Tuesdays, and here is a constabulary police station.
The living is a rectory, episcopally united to the vicarage of Maglass, and to the impropriety curacies of Killiane, Kilmocree, St. Michael's, and Ishartmon. The tithes amount to £102. 18s. 5½d., of which £3. 14s. 5d., is payable to the impropriator, £85. 2s. 7d., to the rector, and £14. 1s. 5½d., to the rector of Ballybrennan. The church, a plain modern structure with a square tower, was built in 1828, by a loan of £1100 from the late Board of First Fruits, but has lately been condemned as unsafe.
In the Roman
Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or district
of Maglass, and has a neat chapel at Ballymore. The parochial
school is held in a private house, and is aided by donations from the rector
; and there is another public school, in which 120 children are educated,
and 40 are taught in a private school. Ballyran Castle is situated
about a quarter of a mile south of the church, and is the property of the
Lett family.
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