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the Earl of Charlemont, and Chas. Brownlow, Esq.:
the tithes amount to £276.18.6. The glebe-house
was erected in 1775, at an expense of £523, of which
£100 was a gift from the late Board of First Fruits,
and the remainder was defrayed by the incumbent; the
glebe comprises 40 statute acres, valued at £50 per
annum. The church, originally built in 1712, on land
given by Francis Obrie, Esq., who also endowed it with
the tithes of eight townlands and gave 40 acres of land
for a glebe, is now in ruins: the present church was
built in 1816, for which purpose the late Board of First
Fruits granted a loan of £800. Divine service is also
performed every Sunday in summer, and on alternate
Sundays, in winter, in a building formerly used as a
place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The R. C.
parish is co-extensive with that of the Established
Church; the chapel, a very neat edifice, is at Eglish.
There is a place of worship for Presbyterians of the
Seceding Synod, of the second class, and also for Wes-
leyan Methodists. About 260 children are taught in
five public schools, of which two are supported by the
rector and Mr. Obrie, and one by Col. Verner; and
there are four private schools, in which are about 160
children, and four Sunday schools. Adjoining the
village of Moghery, and close on the shore of Lough
Neagh, are the ruins of the old church; and in the
townland of Eglish is an ancient cemetery, still used as
a place of sepulture. In the townland of Derrycorr is
a curious ancient road, formed of large oak trees placed
longitudinally with planks of cleft oak laid over them
transversely, and covered with sand and gravel about
a foot deep, forming a road across the bog at a consi-
derable depth below the surface, and in an excellent
state of preservation, though, from the accumulation of
superincumbent bog, the timber must have remained
there for many centuries. The sand and gravel were
evidently brought from Lough Neagh, from portions of
petrified wood and chalcedony being intermixed with
them; and the road, which was recently discovered
while cutting turf, is traceable for nearly two miles to
the Lough, and is supposed by the peasantry to have
been constructed by St. Patrick, for the purpose of con-
veying sand for the building of Armagh cathedral. In
the year 1815 a golden gorget, weighing 12 oz. and
richly chased, was found in one of these bogs, and
was purchased by the Rev. F. Gervais, rector of the
parish.
TASCOFFIN, a parish, in the barony of GOWRAN,
county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 2¾
miles (N. W.) from Gowran; containing 1283 inhabi-
tants. In 1362, James, the second Earl of Ormonde,
here defeated and slew 600 of the clan or sept of the
Mac Murroughs. The parish comprises 7128 statute
acres; culm has been found within its limits, and was
formerly worked. It is a rectory, in the diocese of
Ossory, constituting the corps of the prebend of Tas-
coffin in the cathedral of St. Canice, Kilkenny, and in
the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to £185.
The church was built in 1796, when the late Board of
First Fruits gave £500 towards its erection, and the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners have lately granted £308
for its repair. In the R. C. divisions this parish forms
part of the union or district of Gowran, and contains a
chapel. About 130 children are educated in three pri-
vate schools.
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TAU
TASHINNY, or TAGHSHINNY, a parish, partly
in the barony of RATHCLINE, but chiefly in that of
ABBEYSHRULE, county of LONGFORD, and province of
LEINSTER, 1¼ mile (S.) from Colehill, on the road
from Ballymahon to Mullingar; containing 2475 inha-
bitants. It is situated on the river Inny, and, according
to the applotment under the tithe act, comprises 4463
statute acres, valued at £4302 per annum. The land is
of good quality, and chiefly in tillage: there are quarries
of black stone, and some bog within the limits of the
parish, through which the Royal Canal passes. At
Tennelick, on the Inny, are large mills for grinding
oatmeal, worked by Messrs. M c Cann and Sons, who
generally employ more than 40 persons. Fairs are held
at Tashinny on March 27th and May 28th; fairs are also
held at the village of Barry, which see. The seats are
Doory Hall, the residence of F. T. Jessop, Esq., situated
in a fine and well-planted demesne; Colehill House, of
T. Nugent Lennon, Esq.; and Hermitage, of Geo. Duff,
Esq. The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the dio-
cese of Ardagh, united by episcopal authority to the
rectory and vicarage of Abbeyshrule, and in the patron-
age of the Bishop. The tithes amount to £210; and
there is a glebe of 29 acres, valued at £52 per ann.;
the gross annual value of the benefice, including the
glebe and £14.19. 0¾. from the rectorial tithes of the
parish of Teighshinod, amounts to £364.16.10. The
glebe-house was built in 1825, at an expense of £923
British, of which £230 was a gift and £507 a loan from
the late Board of First Fruits. The church is a small
building, without tower or steeple, erected about a cen-
tury ago; it has lately undergone considerable repairs,
towards which the Countess Dowager of Rosse contri-
buted £150, Mr. Jessop £50, Mrs. Jessop £50, and the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners £50; it contains a hand-
some marble monument to the memory of Judge Gore.
In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union
or district of Carrickedmond, or Teighshinod. In the
school at Barry, partly suppoited by Lady Rosse, who
also partially clothes the children; a school at Doory
Hall, supported by Mrs. Jessop; and separate schools
for boys and girls supported by Wm, M c Cann, Esq.,
about 270 children are educated: the school-house at
Doory Hall is a handsome building. Tennelick, once
the residence of Lord Annaly, has long been in ruins.
TASSAGGARD.—See SAGGARD.
TAUGHBOYNE, a parish, in the barony of RAPHOE,
county of DONEGAL, and province of ULSTER, 5 miles
(W. S. W.) from Londonderry, on the road to Ra-
phoe; containing, with the village and ancient dis-
franchised borough of St. Johnstown, 6335 inhabitants.
St. Baithen, son of Brendan, a disciple and kinsman of
St. Columb, and his successor in the abbey of Hy,
founded Tegbaothin in Tyrconnell: heflourished towards
the close of the sixth century. The parish, according to
the Ordnance survey, comprises an area of 15,773¾
statute acres, including a large portion of bog: the land
is chiefly arable, and of good quality. There are some
extensive slate quarries, but the slates are small and of
a coarse quality. The river Foyle, which bounds the
parish on the east, is navigable for small boats to
St. Johnstown, where a fair is held on Nov. 25th. The
living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Raphoe,
and in the patronage of the Marquess of Abercorn: the
tithes amount to £1569.4.7½.; and the glebe, com-