BALLYDONNELL,
a parish in the barony of ARKLOW, county of WICKLOW, and
province of LEINSTER, 4½ miles (S. E.) from Rathdrum;
containing 645 inhabitants. This parish, which is situated on the lower
road from Arklow to Wicklow,
comprises 2803 statute acres.
It is
a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Dublin and Glendalough,
and forms part of the union of Castlemacadam:
the ecclesiastical duties were separated from that union by an act of
council in 1830, by which Ballydonnell was included in the newly
erected district parish of Redcross, the church of which is situated
in that village.
