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TEMPLEMICHAEL, a parish, in the barony of
ARKLOW, county of WICKLOW, and province of LEIN-
STER, 2½ miles (N.) from Arklow: containing 360 in-
habitants. It was separated from Arklow by act of
council in 1833, and is a rectory and vicarage, in the
diocese of Dublin and Glendalough, forming part of
the union of Kilbride. The church is in ruins. In the
R. C. divisions it is part of the union or district of
Newbridge and Baranisky, and contains a chapel.
TEMPLEMICHAEL-DE-DUAGH, a parish, in the
barony of KINNALEA, county of CORK, and province
of MUNSTER, 2½ miles (E.) from Innishannon, on the
road from Cork to Kinsale; containing 764 inhabit-
ants. This parish comprises 2128 statute acres, as
applotted under the tithe act, and valued at £1640
per annum. The land is generally very good, the soil
deep, and based upon a substratum of clay slate; agri-
culture is rapidly improving under the spirited exertions
of some of the resident gentry; the chief manure is
sea-sand, brought up the Bandon river and landed at
the quays near Innishannon: about one-half of the
land is under tillage, producing crops of corn and pota-
toes, the remainder being pasture, except about 20
acres of valuable bog. There are several handsome
houses: the principal are Coolcullitagh, the residence
of R. Jefford, Esq.; Farthingstown, of J. Haines, Esq.;
Hawthorn Hill, of J. Godwin, Esq.; and the glebe-
house, of the Rev. W. R. Meade. The living is a rectory,
in the diocese of Cork, and in the patronage of the
Bishop; the tithes amount to £245.10.9½. The glebe-
house was built by aid of a gift of £300 and a loan of
£500, in 1816, from the late Board of First Fruits; the
glebe comprises 6 acres. The church is a small hand-
some edifice, in the early English style, built in 1809
by aid of a gift of £600 from the same Board. In the
R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union of
Ballynabog. The parochial school adjoins the church,
and is supported by the rector, who also provides a
house rent-free for the master; about 40 children are
educated in it.
TEMPLEMOLOGGA, or MOLOGGA, also called
NONANE, a parish, in the barony of CONDONS and
CLONGIBBONS, comity of CORK, and province of MUN-
STER, 3¼ miles (N. W.) from Mitchelstown, near the
road to Kildorrery; containing 1876 inhabitants. It
comprises 3628 statute acres, as applotted under the
tithe act, and valued at £2430 per ann., consisting
partly of coarse mountain pasture and bog, and partly
of arable land, which is tolerably good. For all civil
purposes the small parish of Ahacross has merged into
this parish, into which is supposed to have also merged
the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Rogericalvi, still re-
tained in the incumbent’s title as a vicarage. Near
the ruins of the old church of Mologga is a beautiful
cottage, lately erected by the Hon. Robert King, as a
summer residence. It is a rectory, in the diocese of
Cloyne, forming part of the union of Clenore: the tithes
amount to £179.14.5. In the R. C. divisions it is
part of the union or district of Kildorrery; the chapel
at Coolbohoga, a small plain edifice, is about to be re-
built. The ruins of a second church exist at Laba
Mologga, which is supposed to have been formerly a
distinct parish.
TEMPLEMORE, a parish, in the North-west liber-
ties of the city of LONDONDERRY, county of LONDON-
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TEM
DERRY, and province of ULSTER; containing, with the
city of Londonderry, 19,620 inhabitants, of which num-
ber, 10,130 are in the city. This parish, also called Tem-
plederry, and more anciently Derry, or Derry Columb-
kille, derives its name Templemore, “the Great Church,”
from the cathedral of Derry, to which that name had
been applied, in a popular acceptation, to distinguish it
from the smaller churches in its immediate vicinity,
and, after the cathedral had been used as the parish
church, the name was extended to the parish. The
most ancient name of the district in which it was
situated was Moy-Iha, “the Plain of Ith,” uncle of
Milesius, whose sons led into Ireland the celebrated
colony that bore his name. This district, which com-
prehended the tract between Loughs Foyle and Swilly,
and extended as far south as the river Fin, was after-
wards divided between Owen and Enda, the two sons of
Nial of the Nine Hostages, under the names of Inis-
Owen, “Owen’s Island,” and Tir-Enda, “Enda’s Terri-
tory.” Previously to the 12th century, Moy-Iha was
occupied by a branch of the Kinel-Owen, called Clan-
Conor, of which the most distinguished families were
those of O’Cathan, O’Cairellan, O’Murry, O’Kennedy,
O’Corran, O’Quin, and O’Dugan, most of whom having
crossed the Foyle into Derry, their places here were
occupied by the Kinel-Moen. another branch of the
Kinel-Owen, of whom the O’Gormlys and O’Loonys
were chiefs: these in turn were driven across the Foyle
by the Kinel-Connell in the 15th century. From in-
quisitions taken in the reign of Jas. I. it appears that
about half the parish was then considered to belong to
Inishowen, or O’Dogherty’s country; that Sir John
O’Dogherty had several townlands now in Templemore,
which were included in a regrant of Inishowen made to
him on a surrender in the 30th of Elizabeth: he for-
feited this property in 1599 by rebellion, but it was re-
granted to his son, Sir Cahir O’Dogherty, with the
exception of some townlands reserved for the fort of
Culmore. In 1608, Sir Cahir also rebelled, in conse-
quence of which all his estates were granted to Arthur,
Lord Chichester, of Belfast, who leased them to Sir
Faithful Fortescue, Arthur Ussher, Tristram Beresford,
and Chas. Pointz. Of the 24 townlands into which the
parish is now divided, one, on which is the fort of Cul-
more, belongs to the King; one to Capt. Hart; one and
a part to the Bishop of Derry in right of his see; two
to Lord Templemore, a branch of the Chichester family;
three to the Marquess of Donegal, the head of the same
family; and fifteen and a part to the Irish Society.
Until the year 1809 the parish extended into the county
of Donegal, and included the three parishes of Burt,
Inch, and Muff, which were then severed from it and
erected into perpetual curacies.
The parish, as at present constituted, contains
12,611 statute acres, according to the Ordnance survey,
valued at £8363., without the buildings on it, and with
these, at £26,716., per ann.: it is bounded by the river
and Lough Foyle on the east, and by the county of
Donegal on every other side, extending about eight
miles in length from north-east to south-west, and less
than three in its greatest breadth in the contrary di-
rection. The surface is beautifully undulating, present-
ing a succession of hills, mostly cultivated or under
pasture. A wide valley, extending from the Foyle at
Pennyburn, separates the hills into two groups. Of