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firkins, and oats and frieze are also purchased exten-
sively. The fairs are on April 6th, July 4th, Aug. 29th,
and Nov. 1 lth, for wool, horses, horned cattle and pigs;
that in November is a great horse fair, at which many
English buyers attend. The market-house is a neat
and commodious building in the centre of the town.
The charter of Chas. II., granting the manor to Sir Ar-
thur Forbes, created no corporation, nor are any officers
elected; the lord of the manor is empowered to appoint
a clerk of the market, and the business of the town is
conducted by his seneschal. The charter conferred on
the freeholders of the manor the right of returning
two members to the Irish parliament, which they con-
tinued to do till the Union, when the franchise was abo-
lished. The seneschal holds a court leet and baron every
Thursday, at the latter of which debts to the amount of
40s. are recoverable; and a court of record, with juris-
diction to the extent of £100. The assizes are held here
at the usual periods; the general quarter sessions for
the county in January, April, July, and October; and
petty sessions by the county magistrates every Satur-
day. A chief constabulary police force is stationed in
the town. The court-house is a neat and well-arranged
building; and the county goal, erected at the southern
extremity of the town in 1828, comprises 9 wards, with
day and work-rooms and airing-yards, adapted for the
classification of the prisoners; 100 sleeping cells, a tread-
mill, infirmary, chapel, and every requisite office; the
governor's house is in front, and commands a view of all
the wards. The old prison is now used for females only,
and contains 90 sleeping cells, and two day-rooms.
The county infirmary is a spacious and well-arranged
building, situated on the Dublin road and is open to
patients of all kinds except such as are labouring under
infectious diseases.
The parish is 8½ miles in length from east to west,
and extends in breadth from the shore of Lough Hoyle,
on the north, to that of Lough Ennel, on the south;
comprising 17,008 statute acres of profitable land. The
system of agriculture is in an unimproved state; there
is not much waste land, but a considerable quantity of
bog; stone of good quality for building is quarried.
Lough Hoyle is situated nearly in the centre, and in the
most elevated part of the county, in the description of
which it is more particularly noticed. The principal
seats are Anne Brook, the residence of R. Barlow, Esq.
M. D.; Bellevue, of T. Walsh, Esq. 3 Belmount, of
W. Reilly, Esq.; Ladiston, of J. C. Lyons, Esq.;
Green park, the property of Sir Geo. Hodson, now
occupied by the Rev. Mr. Browne; and Levington Park,
of R. H. Levinge, Esq. The living is a vicarage, in the
diocese of Meath, and in the patronage of the Crown;
the rectory is impropriate in the Trustees of the Blue-
coat Hospital, Dublin. The tithes amount to £800,
of which £415 is payable to the impropriators, and the
remainder to the vicar. The glebe-house was erected
in 1812, at an expense of £1327, of which £100 was
a gift, and £675 a loan, from the late Board of First
Fruits, and the remainder was paid by the late incum-
bent: adjoining it, and close to the church, is the glebe,
comprising 1¾ acre, valued at £30 per annum. The
church, a spacious cruciform structure in the later
English style, with a handsome tower and spire, was
rebuilt on an enlarged scale in 1813, at an expense of
£3554, of which £2261 was raised by parochial asses-
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ment, £185 was a donation from the Trustees of the
Blue-Coat Hospital, and the remainder a loan from the
late Board of First Fruits: the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners have recently granted £187 for its repair. In
the R. C. divisions the parish is the head of a union, or
district, comprising also the parishes of Lynn, Moylis-
ker, and part of the parish of Carrick, together forming
the mensal of the Bishop, whose residence is here.
The chapel is a handsome edifice, in the later Engllsh
style, erected in 1836 on a commanding eminence, ca-
pable of containing 6000 persons, and furnished with a
very fine organ; there is also a chapel at Walshestown,
and one at Gainstown, in the parish of Lynn. A small
convent for nuns of the order of the Presentation has been
established. There are places of worship for Presbyterians
and Wesleyan Methodists. About 700 children are taught
in three public schools, of which the Diocesan school is
supported partly by endowment, and partly by the
clergy of the diocese; and there are eight private schools,
in which are about 250 children. There are numerous
Danish raths in the parish; at Kinna are the ruins of
an ancient church, in which the Hodsons of Green Park
are interred; at Beardstown are the ruins of an ancient
fortress, and also at Balthrasna; several coins and orna-
ments of gold have been found in the neighbourhood,
and, in a bog near the town, a torques of pure gold,
weighing 11 oz. The head of the family of Petit was
anciently styled Baron of Mullingar, which title was
also conferred by Wm. III. on Duke Schomberg, whom
he created Duke of Leinster.
MULLINS (ST.), a parish, partly in the barony of
BANTRY, county of WEXFORD, but chiefly in that of
ST. MULLINS, county of CARXOW, and province of
LEINSTER, 2½ miles (E.) from Graigue, on the road
to Enniscorthy, and on the river Barrow; containing
5895 inhabitants. Its name is derived from the ancient
monastery founded here by St. Moling, or Mullin, at
a place called Aghacainid, subsequently Telghmolin, or
"St. Mullin's House," about the year 632, or, according
to some historians, in the middle of the seventh century,
St. Moling, being a native of this part of the island and
of the royal race of Leinster, was afterwards made bishop
of Ferns. In 951, the church was plundered by the
Danes, and the abbey was destroyed by fire in 1138,
The remains of the ancient edifices, and the present pa-
rish church, occupy a beautiful situation on the eastern
bank of the river Barrow, at a spot where its bunks are
finely elevated, on the opposite side well wooded, and
where a small stream merges into it from a deep defile
that extends to the church from the village of Glynn,
presenting some picturesque scenes. The parish com-
prises 13,174 statute acres, of which 998 are common, 423
woodland, 671 waste, 147 5 bog, and the remainder arable;
it derives considerable facility for the transit of its produce
from the Barrow navigation. Road sessions are held in
Glascany; and fairs at St. Mullins on June 17th and
July 25th for the sale of general farming stock. It is
an impropriate cure, in the diocese of Leighlm, and in
the patronage of Csesar Colclough, Esq., in whom the
rectory is impropriate. The titles amount to £600,
entirely payable to the impropriator, who allows the
curate £32. 6.1¾. per annum. The glebe-house was
built by a gift of £380, and a loan of £450, from the late
Board of First Fruits; the glebe comprises 57 acres,
The church is a plain building, erected in 1811 by aid