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CAR
forms the head of a union or district, comprising the
four ploughlands called Carrigaline and the parishes of
Templebready and Kilmoney, and is partly in the union
of Douglas or Ballygervin, and partly in that of Passage:
the chapel is in that part of the village of Carrigaline
which is on the south side of the river. The male and
female parochial schools are supported by subscription;
the school-rooms were built in 1834. At Raheens are
schools for boys and girls, the former supported by a
donation of £50 per ann. from W. H. W. Newenham,
Esq., and the latter by Mrs. Newenham; a school is
aided by annual subscriptions, amounting to £4, and
there are other hedge schools in the parish, altogether
affording instruction to about 450 children, and a
Sunday school. Here is also a dispensary. At Bal-
linrea there is a mineral spring, which is considered
to be of the same kind as that of Tunbridge Wells,
and has been found efficacious in cases of debility;
and near it is a holy well, dedicated to St. Renogue,
which is resorted to by the country people on the 24th
of June.
CARRIGALLEN, or CLINCORICK, a parish, in
the barony of CARRIGALLEN, county of LEITRIM, and
province of CONNAUGHT, 5 miles (S. W. by W.) from
Killesandra, on the road to Drumsna; containing 7809
inhabitants, of which number, 492 are in the village.
The parish contains 15,000 statute acres, including a
great quantity of bog: the cultivation is principally by
spade labour; limestone of the best kind is quarried at
Newtown-Gore. The village comprises about 100 houses:
it has a market for grain and provisions on Monday;
and fairs are held on April 4th, May 7th, Aug. 9th,
Oct. 8th, and the last Friday in Dec. Fairs are also held
at Longfield on May 17th, Oct. 10th, and Dec. 29th.
There is a penny post to Killesandra and Ballinamore;
and a constabulary police force has been stationed here.
Petty sessions are held every alternate Saturday, but the
manor court has been discontinued since the institution
of the assistant barrister’s court. The principal seats
are Killigar, the residence of John Godley, Esq., situated
in a richly wooded demesne, embellished with three fine
sheets of water; Drumsilla, of Acheson O’Brien, Esq.;
and Cloncorrick Castle, the property of Pierce Simpson,
Esq., by purchase from Major W. Irwin. This castle
was built by the O’Rourkes, and here resided John
O’Rourke, son of Thady, the last of the family who
lived in any degree of splendour, until, in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, at a Court of Claims held at Carrig-
allen, he was deprived of his estate and declared illegi-
timate, on the evidence of Abbot Macaward. The castle
has received such additions and alterations as scarcely
to leave a feature of its original character. Woodford
House, which is half a mile north of Newtown-Gore, is
built on the ruins of another of the O’Rourkes 1 castles:
the estate was formerly well wooded, and remarkable
for its oaks, and there are still two fine walled gardens
of considerable extent. It was a place of great splendour,
and belonged to the ancestors of W. Ormsby Gore, Esq.,
of Porkington, Shropshire.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Kilmore,
and in the patronage of the Bishop, to whom the rectory
is appropriate: the tithes amount to £450, of which
£151. 1. 6. is payable to the bishop, and £298. 18. 6.
to the incumbent. The church, a good building with a
square tower, and in excellent repair, was erected in
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1814, by aid of a loan of £1500 from the late Board of
First Fruits. The glebe-house was built by a gift of
£100, and a loan of £1350, from the same Board, in
1819: the glebe comprises 590 acres. There is also a
church at Killigar, with a small parsonage-house adjoin-
ing, built and endowed by John Godley, Esq., at an
expense of £1100. The R. C. parish is co-extensive
with that of the Established Church, and contains two
chapels, one at Mullinadaragh, and the other, called the
Lower Chapel, at Aughal: there is also a place of wor-
ship for Wesleyan Methodists at Newtown-Gore. At
Drumshangour are two schools, aided by annual dona-
tions from Mr. and Mrs. Godley, who at their own ex-
pense support two at Killigar: there are also schools
at Carrigallen, Newtown-Gore, Corglass, Corneagh,
and Kievy. In these schools are educated 480 boys
and 400 girls; and there are also three private schools,
in which are about 100 boys and 60 girls, and
two Sunday schools, one of which is supported by Mr.
Godley.
CARRIGANS.—See KILLEA, county of DONEGAL.
CARRIGDOWNANE, or CARRIGDOWNIG, a pa-
rish, in the barony of FERMOY, county of CORK, and
province of MUNSTER, 5 miles (S. W.) from Mitchels-
town; containing 219 inhabitants. This small parish,
which is situated on the river Funcheon, and on the
road from Kildorrery to Fermoy, comprises 785 statute
acres, as assessed to the county rate, and valued at
£687 per annum. The land is in general of good
quality and chiefly under tillage, but the system of agri-
culture is in a backward state. Limestone is plentiful,
and is quarried for burning into lime, which is the
principal manure. Stannard’s Grove, the property of
the Cotter family, is at present uninhabited. The living
is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese of Cloyne, and
in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes amount to
£90. The church is in ruins; and the Protestant pa-
rishioners attend the church of Nathlash, a mile distant.
There is no glebe-house; the glebe comprises 10 Irish
acres. In the R. C. divisions this parish forms part of
the union or district of Kildorrery. There are some
remains of the ancient parish church.
CARRIGG, a parish, in the barony of SHELMA-
LIER, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEIN-
STER, 2 miles (W.) from Wexford; containing 1054
inhabitants. This place is situated on the road to
New Ross, and on the river Slaney, at its influx into the
haven at Wexford. In the townland of Ferry-Carrigg,
and near the bridge over the Slaney, Robert Fitz-
Stephen, in 1171, built a strong castle, in which he was
soon afterwards besieged by the Irish under Donald of
Limerick, natural son of Dermod Mac Murrough, the
last King of Leinster. Donald, finding himself unable
to reduce it by force, had recourse to stratagem, and by
a feigned account that Strongbow and his friends in
Dublin had been put to the sword by the victorious
army, who were on their march to this place, prevailed
upon Fitz-Stephen, by the promise of a safe passport
into Wales, to surrender himself and the garrison into
his hands. Many of the men were instantly put to
death; and Fitz-Stephen and the remainder were con-
veyed in chains to a small island called Beg Erin, in the
north part of Wexford haven, where they were confined
till the landing of Hen. II. at Waterford, when, being
removed to that town, they were placed in Ragnal’s or