Dunmore

Galway

Dunmore

DUNMORE, a market and post-town, and a parish, partly in the barony of HALF-BALLYMOE, but chiefly in that of DUNMORE county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 7 1/4 miles (N.by E.) from Tuam, and 106 (w.) from Dublin; containing 10,705 inhabitants, of which number, 847 are in the town.

St. Patrick built the monastery of Domnagh Padraig, or "the stone house of Patrick," here, and made St. Fulartach its superintendent; and a friary for Augustine Eremites was founded on the site of this abbey, in 1425, by Lord Athenry. The parish comprises 35,571 statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act, and contains Quarrymount, the seat of J. J. Bodkin, Esq.; and Carantrila, of W. H. Handcock Esq. The market is on Thursday; and fairs are held on May 29th, July 10th, Oct. 10th, and Dec. 11th. It has a sub-post-office to Tuam, and is a constabulary police station.

The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Tuam, and in the patronage of the Crown: the tithes amount to £646. 3. 1. The glebe-house was built in 1815, by aid of a gift of £ 100 and a loan of £900, and has a glebe of five acres. The church is part of the ancient friary.

The Roman Catholic parish is co-extensive with that of the Established Church, and has a small slated chapel.

About 400 children are educated in two public, and 260 in eight private schools; there is also a Sunday school. Here are the ruins of a castle of the Birminghams. The Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart., formerly ambassador in Persia, and Sir William Ouseley, an eminent Oriental scholar, are natives of this place.

Dunmore

Kilkenny

Dunmore

DUNMORE, a parish, in the county of the city of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 3 1/2 miles (N.) from Kilkenny, on the road to Durrow; containing 875 inhabitants. It comprises 2264 statute acres, and has a constabulary police station.

The living is a vicarage, in thc diocese of Ossory, united with the vicarages of Muckalee and Kilmodum, and in the patronage of the Crown; the rectory is impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde The tithes amount to £ 175. 3., of which £85.3. is payable to the impropriator, and £90 to the vicar; the tithes of the union are £210. The glebe-house was erected in 1816, by aid of a gift of £350 and a loan of £450 from the late Board of First Fruits: the glebe comprises 22 acres. The church is a plain building, recently repaired by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, at an Expense of £114.

In the Roman Catholic divisions the parish forms part of the union or district of Muckalee.