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are two private schools, in which are about 80 boys and
30 girls; and the Earl of Egmont intends to build one at
Churchtown, capable of accommodating 700 children,
which will be placed tinder the National Board.
CHURCHTOWN, county of DUBLIN.—See TANEY.
CHURCHTOWN, or RHEBAN, a parish, in the
barony of WEST NARRAGH and RHEBAN, county of
KILDAKE, and province of LEINSTER; containing, with
part of the post-town of Athy, 2009 inhabitants, of which
number, 706 are in the town. This parish is situated
on the river Barrow, and on the road from Athy to
Monastereven, and contains 7245 statute acres, as applot-
ted under the tithe act. It is the site of the ancient city
and castle of Rheban, noticed in Ptolemy’s map as one
of the principal inland cities, the only remains of which
are a deep quadrangular intrenchment, with a high
conical mount at its western extremity. A fair was for-
met-ly held herej on St. Michael’s day, but has long
since been removed to Athy. It is an impropriate
curacy, in the diocese of Dublin, and is one of the nine
denominations which constitute the union of Athy or
Nicholastown; the rectory is impropriate. The tithes
amount to £390, of which £260 is paid to the impro-
priator, and £130 to the incumbent. In the R. C.
divisions also the parish forms part of the union or
district of Athy.
CHURCHTOWN, a parish, in the barony of LOWER
NAVAN, -county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER,
3 miles (N. N E.) from. Trim; containing 448 inha-
bitants. This parish is situated on the road from Ard-
braccan to Trim, and on that from Athboy to Navan,
and is separated from Clonmacduff by a small river:
the land is principally under tillage, and has a substra-
tum of limestone. The principal seatsare Philpotstown,
the residence of John T. Young, Esq.; and Churchtown,
of Mrs. Kellett. It is in the diocese of Meath, and is
one of the six parishes which constitute tbe union of
Ardbraccanj the rectory is impropriate in the represen-
tatives of Miss Reynell, of Killynan. The tithes amount
to £53. 1. 6½. per ann., of which £43. 6. 11. is payable
to the irnpropriator, and the remainder to the incum-
bent. In the R. C. divisions the parish is united to
those of Clonmacduff, Moymet, Tullyhanogue, Rataine,
and Kilcooly, called the union of Dunderry, or of Church-
town and Moymet, in each of which latter piaces are
chapels; that of Churchtown is situated at Dunderry
bridge. There is a school at Dunderry, aided by annual
donations from the Earl of Fingall and Earl Ludlow.
Some small remains of the old church exist, with a
burial-ground attached.
CHURCHTOWN, a parish, in the barony of RATH-
CONRATH, countyofWESTMEATti, and province of LEIN-
STER, 4¾ miles (W. by S.) from Mullingar; containing
980 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the road
from Mullingar to Athlone, and on Lough Ennel, by
which it is bounded on the south; it coraprises 966
statute acres, as applotted under the tithe act. The land
is chiefly in pasture j that which is under tillage produces
good crops, and the system of agriculture is gradually
improving: there is a small portion of bog, and abun-
dance of limestone. The Royal Canal nearly touches the
northern extremity of the parish. The living is a rec-
tory, in the diocese of Meath, united by act of council,
in 1809, to the rectory of Dysart and the ehapelry of
Conragh, and in the alternate patronage of the Crown and
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the Bishop: the tithes amount to £180. 8. 3., and of the
whole union to £373. 8. 3. The church is a neat modern
building with a square tower, erected in 1811, byaid of
a gift of £600 from the late Board of First Fruits; it is
nearly in the centre of the union. The glebe-house near
it was built in 1814, byaid of a gift of £400 and a loan
of £210 from the same Board. There are two glebes,
comprising together 24 acres, valued at £2 per acre. In
the R. C. divisions the parish is also the head of a union,
co-extensive with that of the Established Church; there
are chapels at Dysart and Conragh. A school is sup-
ported by subscription, aided by the rector, in which
are about 30 children. There are some remains of the
old church, with a cemetery; and at Teaghboyan are
the remains of a monastery, of which St. Baithen was
abbot, and probably the founder; no records of it since
the year 1229 are extant.
CHURCHTOWN, a district parish, in the barony
of FORTH, county of WEXFORD, and province of LEIN-
STER, 20½ miles (S. W.) from Broadway; containing 1429
inhabitants, It is situated on the Lough of Tacumshane,
and was constituted an ecclesiastical district, comprising
the parishes of Ballymore and Tacumshane, in 1834,
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the diocese of Ferns,
and in the patronage of the Chancellor of the diocese
for the first three turns, after which the right of pre-
sentation will vest in the Bishop. The tithes of five
townlands comprising 693 statute acres, amounting to
£70. 10. l½., and a glebe of more than four statute acres
were allotted for the support of the curate. The church,
a neat building, was finished in 1835, at an expense of
£800, granted by the late Board of First Fruits. In the
R. C. divisions it is partly in the district of Maglass,
and partly in that of Lady’s Island, in which respect-
ively are the chapels of Ballymore and Tacumshane. A
parochial school has been established under the super-
intendence of the perpetual curate. The only remains
of antiquity are the ruins of the old parish church of
Tacumshane.
CLADDAGH, a village, and suburb of the town of
GALWAY, in that part of the parish of RAHOON which
is within the county of the town of GALWAY, and in the
province of CONNAUGHT: the population is returned
with the parish. This place is situated on the coast of
the bay of Galway, and from that circumstance.its name,
which in the Irish language signifies “thesea shore,” is
said to be derived. It is a large and populous village,
consisting almost entirely of thatched cottages and in-
habited chiefly by fishermen engagecl in the extensive
fishery carried on in the bay. Though within the juris-
diction of the town of Galway, and separated from it
only by the mouth of the river, it forms a kind of
colony, remarkable for the primitive peculiarity of its in-
habitants, who differ not only in habits and character, but
also in dialect from those of Galway. The whole estate
is the property of Mr. Whalley, whose ancestor was a
colonel in Cromwell’s army. The inhabitants pay no
direct taxes, nor do they suffer strangers, whom they
call “transplanters,” to live among them. They seldom
marry out of their own village, and generally at a very
early age; the parents contriving to give as a dower
either a boat or a share in a boat, which is sufficient
to secure a maintenance for the families. They depend
entirely on the fishery; on returning from sea, the fisk
is consigned entirely to the women, who dispose of it to