St. Paul’s Church, Mountmellick, Co. Laois (Queen’s Co.)

St. Paul’s Church of Ireland,
Mountmellick,
Co. Laois (Queen’s Co.),
Ireland.


Lewis Topographical Dictionary (1837) tells us that Mountmellick is part of two civil parishes “COOLBANAGHER, or COOLBENGER, a parish, in the barony of PORTNEHINCH, QUEEN’S county, and province of LEINSTER; containing, with the parish of Ardea, or Ardrea, the post-town of Emo, and part of that of Mountmellick, 7456 inhabitants. It comprises 8623 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. “

Also that “The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Kildare, episcopally united, in 1804, to the rectory of Ardea or Ardrea, together forming the union of Coolbanagher, in the patronage of the Crown:”

These photographs were taken May 2014.