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County Wexford, Ireland
Lewis Extracts
CIVIL PARISHES
Killurin
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
KILLURIN, a parish, in the barony of SHELMALIER, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles (N. E.) from Wexford town, on the road from that place to Enniscorthy; containing, with the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Chapel-charon, 638 inhabitants.
It comprises 1738 statute acres, which are tolerably well cultivated. The seats are Killurin House, lately the residence of the Devereux family, now the property of the Earl of Arran; Healthfield, of E. Beatty Esq. ; and Penzance, of C. Martin, Esq.
The living is
a vicarage, in the diocese of Ferns, united
by act of council, in 1776, to the impropriate curacies of Kilbride-Glynn,
Chapel-charon, and Whitechurch-Glynn,
and episcopally with the impropriate curacy of Ballyheogue,
together forming the union of Killurin, in the patronage of the Bishop;
the rectory is impropriate in the Earl of Portsmouth. The tithes amount
to £86. 9s. 3¾d., of which £38. 17s. is payable to the
impropriator, and the remainder to the incumbent. The church, which was built
in 1785, is a neat edifice with a tower, and had a handsome painted window,
which was destroyed in the disturbances of 1798. Here is a handsome glebe-house
which cost £1200, towards the erection of which the late Board of first
Fruits gave £100, in 1816 : the glebe comprises 20 acres.
In the Roman Catholic divisions this parish forms part of the union or district of Glynn, comprising the parishes of Killurin, Kilbride-Glynn, Ardcandridge, and Carrigg, and parts of Coolstuffe, Whitechurch-Glynn, and of the extra-parochial mountain of Forth; there is a neat chapel at Glynn, contiguous to which is a residence for the priest, given, with five acres of land, by Mr. Devereux ; and there is another chapel at Barntown, in Carrigg.
The parochial
school, with apartments for the master, was erected in 1829 by the vicar,
who gave nearly an acre of land, and subscribes £12 per annum towards
its support : about 80 children are educated in it, and about ,100 are taught
in a school at Glynn. Here are the ruins of Carrigmanon, the
ancient residence of the Devereux family. Cornwall, a small
fishing Village on the river Slaney, is in this parish.
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