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acres, under a highly improved system of agriculture;
there is no bog. The Barrow navigation affords great
facility for the transmission, of goods to Waterford and
Dublin. Oak Park, the seat of Col. Bruen, is more
particularly noticed in the article on the town of Carlow.
The living is an impropriate cure, in the diocese of
Leighlin, and in the patronage of the Bishop: the rec-
tory is appropriate to the dean and chapter of Leighlin.
The tithes amount to £.89. 0. 0½., of which £59. 6.8. is
payable to the dean and chapter, and £29. 13. 4½. to the
impropriate curate,. Divine service is performed in a
private house licensed for the purpose. In the R. C.
divisions the parish forms part of the union or district
of Carlow. Here is a school, supported by Col. Bruen.
There are ruins of a church and a burial-ground, on the
townland of Painstown; and the ruins of a church at
Duganstown.
PAINSTOWN, a parish, in the barony of LOWER
DULEEK, county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER,
2 miles (S. W.) from Slane, on the road from Trim to
Drogheda by Navan; containing 1184 inhabitants.
This parish is intersected, in the northern portion, by
the river Boyne, and comprises 3342 statute acres, as
applotted under the tithe act. The land is of good
quality, nearly equally divided between tillage and
pasture; and there is neither waste land nor bog.
Copper is supposed to exist here, but it has never been
raised; and there are quarries of building stone.
Beauparc, the spacious and elegant mansion of Gustavus
Lambert, Esq., is situated on very elevated ground,
overlooking the river Boyne, and commanding a view
of some richly varied scenery; the grounds are cele-
brated both for natural and artificial beauty; the
demesne contains about 300 Irish acres. Dollardstown,
a spacious mansion, the property of Sir W. Meredyth
Somerville, Bart., and formerly a seat of the Meredyth
family, is now occupied by a farmer. Seneschalstown,
now leased to L. Kelly, Esq., is the property of the
Aylmer family: Tersington is the seat of T. Russell,
Esq.; and the glebe house is the residence of the Rev.
G. Brabazon. In 1546, licence was granted to the
bishop and clergy of Meath to alienate for ever the ad-
vowson of Painstown, reserving to the bishop and his
successors out of the rectory a yearly pension of £20:
the living is a rectory, in the diocese of Meath, united
by act of council, in 1682, to the rectory of Ardmulchan,
and in the patronage of the Crown and the Bishop, the
former having one, the latter two turns. The tithes
amount to £276. 18. 5½., and the entire value of the
benefice is £563. 9. 2¼. The glebe-house is close to the
church, and was built in 1810, at a cost of £1260, of
which £100 was a gift, and £625 a loan, from the late
Board of First Fruits, the residue having been supplied
by the incumbent. The glebe of the union comprises
23 acres, valued at £32. 13. 10¼. per ann., but subject
to a rent of £27. 13. 10¾. The church is an old, but
very neat edifice, with a handsome tower; in 1823, a
gallery was erected at the west end, and the steeple was
roofed and repaired, by aid of a loan of £400 from the
same Board. In the R. C. divisions the parish forms
part of the union or district of Blacklion, and has a
chapel at Yellow Furze, a neat modern structure. A
school at Yellow Furze, in which are about 30 boys and
12 girls, is aided by an annual donation from the R. C.
clergyman.
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PAL
PALATINETOWN, a hamlet, in the parish or
URGLIN, barony and county of CARLOW, and province
of LEINSTER, 2¾ miles (N. E.) from Carlow, on the
road to Castledermot; containing 88 inhabitants. It
is said to derive its name from a colony of German
refugees, who were driven from their native country,
and settled here, in the reign of Louis XIV. The Rt.
Hon. B. Burton obtained a patent for four fairs, of
which that on the 26th of March is the only one at
present held. A constabulary police force is stationed
in the village.
PALLASGREINE, PALLASGREANE, or PAL-
LASGREEN, a post-town, in the parish of GREANE,
barony of COONAGH, county of LIMERICK, and province
of MUNSTER, 13 miles (S. E.) from Limerick, near the
new mail road from Limerick to Tipperary; containing
379 inhabitants. In 1831, it comprised 62 houses, the
whole of which are small thatched buildings, with the
exception of Pallas House, the residence of T. Apjohn,
Esq., which stands at the head of the village. It is a
station of the constabulary police, and has a sub-post-
office to Limerick and Clonmel. Three small fairs are
held in the year. The parochial church is near the
village; and at Nesker, in the vicinity, is the principal
chapel of the R. C. union or district of Pallasgreine,
which also contains the chapel of Templebrinden.
PALLASKENRY (formerly called NEWMARKET),
a market and post-town, in the. parish of CHAPEL-
RUSSELL, barony of KENRY, county of LIMERICK, and
province of MUNSTER, 12 miles (W.) from Limerick,
and 103¾ (S. W.) from Dublin; containing 630 inha-
bitants. This town, which is one of the most improv-
ing in the county, is situated on the road from Lime-
rick to the quay of Ringmoylan, and on the lower
road from the same city to Castletown; and comprises
115 houses, the greater number of which are well built,
but covered with thatch. Petty sessions are held once
a fortnight: it is a chief constabulary police station,
and contains the dispensary for the barony, which has
a resident physician and is open daily. The market,
held on Thursday, is well attended and amply supplied
with provisions. The linen manufacture was formerly
carried on here to a great extent, and there was a large
bleach-green near the town: though the population is
chiefly engaged in agriculture, yet flax-dressing, spinning
and linen-weaving still give employment to many of the
inhabitants. The spirit of industry has been power-
fully excited latterly by an institution called the Chapel-
Russell Loan Fund. It was commenced in 1823, by
means of a fund of £218 subscribed by the Earl of
Charleville, the county of Limerick Trustees, the Lon-
don Committee, the Irish Peasantry Society, and the
County of Limerick Ladies’ Committee. The fund is
lent out in small portions, sometimes in money, but
more frequently in wool, flax and implements for manu-
facture, such as wheels, reels and looms, and is repaid
by weekly instalments, in which the manufactured goods
are taken at a liberal valuation. In seasons of scarcity
provisions are issued, and articles for clothing and
bedding occasionally. In consequence of the judicious
management of the trustees, it appears that, at the end
of thirteen years, a profit of £76 has accrued from it,
and the habits of those for whose benefit it has been so
successfully carried on have been much improved. The
new and elegant parish church stands at a short dis-