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TEM
Esq., which derives its name from an extensive planta-
tion of oaks, comprising about 1200 statute acres;
Ballychrystal, of Thos. James, Esq., romantically situ-
ated on the mountainous confines of the county of Car-
low; and Templeshanbo Glebe, of the Rev. H. Preston.
Elrington, precentor of Ferns, in a retired and wild
situation near Mount Leinster: several other seats are
noticed under the head of Monart, which see.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese
of Ferns, consolidated in 1724, and constituting the
corps of the precentorship in the cathedral of Ferns,
and in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount
to £1200, and there is a glebe of 26 acres: the glebe-
house is a handsome mansion, erected in 1828. The
church, a neat edifice in the later English style, with an
embattled tower crowned with crocketed pinnacles, was
built in 1815, at an expense of £1150, of which £1000
was a loan from the late Board of First Fruits; it was
enlarged in 1826, by aid of a loan of £300 from the
same Board, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have
lately granted £352 for its further improvement. In
the R. C. divisions the parish is partly in the district of
Newtownbarry, but chiefly in that of Ballindaggin;
and contains six chapels, of which those of Marshals-
town and Castledockril are in the former, and those of
Ballindaggin, Caim, Newtown, and Kiltealy, in the
latter, district. A school on Erasmus Smith’s founda-
tion was established in 1815, when a school-house was
built by the trustees, and, in 1829, a wing containing a
school-room for girls was added by the rector, who, in
conjunction with the governors of the Foundling Hos-
pital, and the London Ladies’ Hibernian, Society, sup-
ports this division of the school: about 70 children are
here educated; and about 350 children are taught
during the summer in eight private schools. The lands
of Whelagore are charged with the payment of £10
(late currency) per annum to the poor of the parish.
According to Ware, a convent of the order of St.
Augustine was founded at Seanbotha, of which Colman
O’Fiachrah was patron in the 6th century; in the
churchyard are the remains of a religious house.
TEMPLESHANNON, a parish, in the barony of
BALLAGHKEEN, county of WEXFORD, and province of
LEINSTER; containing, with a part of the town of En-
niscorthy, 2743 inhabitants. It is situated on the eastern
bank of the river Slaney, along which it extends in a
north-eastern direction about two miles from the town,
with the main body of which latter it is connected by
the bridge; it is bounded on the north and east by the
small river Blackwater, and within its limits is the
mount called Vinegar Hill, one of the principal stations
of the insurgents during the disturbances of 1798. (See
ENNISCORTHY.) It comprises 4900 statute acres, as ap-
plotted under the tithe act, chiefly in tillage, but there is
a good deal of pasture on the sides of Vinegar Hill; the
soil is good, and the state of agriculture improving.
Good building stone is found at Clonhaston and Drum-
goold, and a few years since some fine specimens of
plumbago were discovered at Grenville. At the foot of
Vinegar Hill is “Shiell’s Well,” so remarkable for the
purity of its water as to have obtained the designation
of the “liquid diamond:” from this source the inha-
bitants of the town are about to be supplied by pipes
laid along the bridge, and conducted to several public
conduits. The projected canal from Pooldarragh to
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Enniscorthy will pass through the southern part of the
parish. There is a brewery in the suburbs of the town,
and another at Drumgoold about half a mile distant.
The parish is in the diocese of Ferns, and is a rectory,
forming part of the union of St. Mary’s, Enniscorthy;
the tithes amount to £470. 2. 3., and there is a glebe of
23 acres: the glebe-house, and the school on Erasmus
Smith’s foundation, built on the glebe, are noticed under
the head of Enniscorthy. In the R. C. divisions also it
is partly in the district of Enniscorthy; the remainder
is in that of Monageer. There is a meeting-house for
the Society of Friends near the North quay. About 120
children are educated in the public and private schools
of this parish. According to Colgan, the ancient church,
now in ruins, was founded by St. Senan, a cotemporary
of Maidoc, bishop of Ferns. At Moatabeg, on the border
of the parish, is a tumulus of great antiquity, and in a
very perfect state; it is supposed to have been con-
structed at a period prior to the irruptions of the Danes.
TEMPLETENNY, a parish, in the barony of IFFA
and OFFA WEST, county of TIPPERARY, and province of
MUNSTER, 4 miles (S. W.) from Clogheen, on the road
from Ballyporeen to Mitchelstown; containing 3786
inhabitants. It comprises 9720 statute acres, of which
about 240 are woodland, 3800 waste and bog, and the
remainder arable and pasture. The surface is moun-
tainous; the lower lands are of good quality, and in a
state of profitable cultivation; limestone is abundant,
and is quarried for agricultural purposes. The sur-
rounding scenery is boldly varied, and there are two
woods of considerable extent, the property of Lord
Kingston. It is a vicarage, in the diocese of Lismore,
forming part of the union of Shanrahan; the rectory is
impropriate in Cæsar Sutton, Esq. The tithes amount
to £594. 12. 3., of which £410 is payable to the impro-
priator, and £184. 12. 3. to the vicar. The church, a
neat edifice recently erected, is situated in the village of
Ballyporeen; there are some remains of the old church,
the burial-place of which is still used. The R. C. parish
is co-extensive with that of the Established Church, and
is called Ballyporeen, where the chapel is situated.
On the townland of Coolagarranroe, near the road
from Mitchelstown to Cahir, about six miles from the
former and seven from the latter place, are the Kingston
caverns, which, though in this parish, are sometimes
called the Mitchelstown caverns, from parties visiting
them usually making that town their head-quarters.
These extraordinary and magnificent caverns were first
discovered in 1833, while quarrying the limestone hill,
on the farm of a tenant of Lord Kingsborough, named
Gorman, to whom his lordship confided the charge of
preserving them from injury, and of acting as guide.
The entrance is from the quarry by a slanting passage
50 feet long, terminating at the edge of a precipice, from
which is a descent of 20 feet by a ladder to a second
sloping passage, 100 feet in length, and greatly ob-
structed by scattered masses of rugged rock, which
leads into an area about 70 or 80 feet in diameter, and
30 feet high. From this are various galleries or pas-
sages leading into other chambers of various dimensions,
of which at present 15 have been explored; of these, the
principal are called the House of Commons, the House
of Peers, O’Leary’s Cave, O’Callaghan’s Cave, Kings-
borough Hall, the Altar Cave, the Closets, the Cellar,
and the Garret. The stalactites depending from the