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bulary police force is stationed here, and petty sessions
are held on the first Tuesday in every month. A
manorial court is held monthly before the seneschal, for
the recovery of debts under 40s.; the court and market-
house is a spacious and handsome building in the centre
of the village. The old church built by the company
having fallen into decay, a new church in the early
English style was erected in 1821, towards which a loan
of £1000 was granted by the late Board of First Fruits;
the glebe-house (erected by the Company), a dispensary,
and an almshouse for 20 poor widows, are also in the
village. There are some remains of the old parish
church; but not a vestige of the bawn or castle, except
the vaults of the latter, can be traced.
MULLACREW, a village, in the parish, barony, and
county of LOUTH, and province of LEINSTER, 6½ miles
(S. W.) from Dundalk, on the road from Ardee, by Louth,
to Castle-Blayney; containing 124 houses and 596 in-
habitants. It is much resorted to as one of the most
extensive marts for wool in Ireland, and for its fairs for
cattle and pigs, which are held on Feb. 2nd, March 25th,
April 4th, May 1st, June 17th, (which is the great wool
fair), July 26th, Aug. 15th, Sept. 8th, Oct. 18th, Nov.
16th, and Dec. 21st.
MULLAGH, a market.town and parish, in the
barony of CASTLERAHAN, county of CAVAN, and pro-
vince of ULSTER, 6 miles (N. N. W.) from Kells, on the
road to Bailieborough; containing 5960 inhabitants, of
which number, 108 are in the town. This parish is
situated on the confines of the county of Meath, and
comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 12,873
statute acres, of which 140¾ are water, and there are
large tracts of bog and mountain; the general quality
of the land is good. There is abundance of stone for
building; some slate is found on the glebe, and coal
exists, but is not worked. The town, which consists of
36 houses, is a constabulary police station, and petty
sessions are held on alternate Fridays. It has a weekly
market; and fairs for the sale of cattle and pigs, oats,
butter, and flax, are held on Jan. 29th, March 25th,
May 27th, July 29th, Sept. 30th, and Nov. 25th. Here
is a dispensary. The principal seats are Lake View, the
residence of — Mortimer, Esq.; Quilca House, of the
Rev. Luke O’Reilly; and the glebe-house, of the Rev.
Atkinson Caffrey. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the diocese of Kilmore, and in the gift of the Incum-
bent of Killenkere. The income of the perpetual curate
is £78. 2., of which £55 is payable by the vicar of
Killenkere, and £23. 2. from the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners, out of Primate Boulter’s fund: he has also
the glebe, comprising 20 acres, and valued at £20 per
annum; and the glebe-house, which was built by aid of
a gift of £450, and a loan of £50, in 1822, from the
late Board of First Fruits. The church is a neat struc-
ture in good repair, built in 1819, at an expense of
£1107, being a loan from the same Board. The R. C.
parish is co-extensive with that of the Established
Church, and contains two chapels, one at Cornakill, and
one at Chapel-Cross. There are meeting-houses for
Presbyterians and Independents. There are four private
schools, in which about 290 children are educated; and
a Sunday school. Ruins of an ancient church and of a
chapel of ease exist. The site of the castle on the
western side of the lake is now occupied by the cottage
of Mrs. Finlay; the castle was destroyed by Cromwell.
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Quilca House, in which Dean Swift wrote "Gulliver’s
Travels," and the "Tale of a Tub," was the residence
of Mr. T. Sheridan, father of the Rt. Hon. Brinsley
Sheridan.
MULLAGHBRACK, a parish, partly in the baro-
nies of ONEILLAND WEST and LOWER ORIOR, but
chiefly in the barony of LOWER FEWS, county of AR-
MAGH, and province of ULSTER; containing, with the
district parish of Kilcluney, the post-town of Market-
hill, and the village of Hamilton’s-Bawn (all of which
are separately described), 16,099 inhabitants, of which
number, 7627 are in the district parish of Kilcluney.
This parish is of great antiquity; mention is made of
it in Pope Nicholas’s Taxation in 1291, at which time
the rectory and several townlands belonged to the Colidei,
or Culdees, of Armagh. At the plantation of Ulster,
Jas. I. granted 1000 acres of land here and the manor
of Coolemalish to H. Acheson, Esq., who built a stone
bawn at Carrickbane, 140 feet long and 80 feet wide,
defended at the angles by four towers; and settled
there 19 Scottish families, who, with their servants and
retainers, furnished 30 armed men for the service of the
king. Soon after, Sir James Douglas obtained a grant
of 2000 acres and the manor of Cloncarney, on which
his successor, Sir Archibald Acheson, built a strong
castle and placed 36 British families, who furnished 148
armed men. He also built a town round his castle of
Cloncarney, in which he placed 30 more British fami-
lies, who provided 30 soldiers for the king. This town
was the origin of the present flourishing town of Mar-
kethill, and the family of the Achesons were ancestors
of its present proprietor, the Earl of Gosford.
The parish is situated on the road from Armagh to
Newry, and comprises 24,296 statute acres: the land in
the northern part is of good quality, but that in the
south-eastern portion is mountainous and poor. The
system of agriculture is rapidly improving; there is no
waste land, and very little bog, not at all sufficient
for a due supply of fuel for the population; lime,
which is brought from Armagh, is the chief manure.
Lead ore of rich quality is found in the townland of
Cavanaghgrough or Cavanagrove, but no attempt has
been made to work it; and near the R. C. chapel at
Drumlack is a thin seam of excellent coal. Gosford
Castle, the seat of the Earl of Gosford, is a sumptuous
and stately structure in the Norman style, built of
granite from the Mullaglass quarries: the castle has
been 17 years in progress of erection, and is not
yet completed; it is situated in an ample and highly
improved demesne, about a quarter of a mile to the
east of the former mansion, which was built on the
site of the castle originally erected by Sir A. Ache-
son in 1617, and destroyed in the insurrection of 1641.
The other seats in the parish are Drumart, that of J,
Hardy, Esq.; Marlacoo, of R. Boyd, Esq.; and Bally-
newry, of B. Atkinson, Esq. A court for the united
manors of Coolmalish and Cloncarney is held on the
first Wednesday in every month, for the recovery of
debts under 40S.; and a court for the manor of Johns-
town is held at Hamilton’s-Bawn, on the first Monday
in every month, for the recovery of debts to the same
amount. Part of the parish is within the manor of
Armagh, and part also in that of Clady, for which courts
are occasionally held at Cambough and Clady. Courts
leet are also held twice in the year. Several townlands
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