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will add to the interest of the landscape. The principal
seats are Dartrey Lodge, the residence of W. Olpherts,
Esq.; the Argory, of W. M c Geough Bond, Esq.; and
Tullydoey, of J. Eyre Jackson, Esq., at which place
is also the residence of T. Eyre, Esq. The weaving of
linen is carried on extensively by the farmers and cottiers
at their own dwellings; and at Tullydoey is an extensive
bleach-green.
The living is a rectory and vicarage, in the diocese
of Armagh, and in the patronage of the Provost and
Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin: the tithes amount
to £1030. The glebe-house is a good building; the
glebe comprises 532a. 3r. 17p. of good arable land. The
church was destroyed during the rebellion of Tyrone,
since which time the village of Clonfeacle has been
neglected and now forms part of Blackwater-town;
and, in the same rebellion, the church of Eglish was
destroyed, and that parish has ever since been included
in the parish of Clonfeacle. The present parish church
is situated close to the village of Benburb, on the con-
fines of the counties of Armagh and Tyrone; it was
built by Sir R. Wingfield, in 1619, and repaired and
enlarged in 1815, by a gift of £800 from the late Board
of First Fruits; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have
recently granted £526. 11. towards its further repair.
There are also a church at Moy and one at Derrygor-
trevy; the latter stands near the site of the old church
of Eglish. In the R. C. divisions the parish is called
Upper and Lower Clonfeacle, and includes the whole
parish of Eglish; there are chapels at Eglish, Moy, and
Blackwater-town. There is a place of worship at Ben-
burb for Presbyterians in connection with the Synod of
Ulster of the second class; and one at Crew in con-
nection with the Associate Synod: and at Blackwater-
town is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The parochial school, near the church at Benburb, was
built in 1832, by the Rev. Henry Griffin, the present
rector, by whom it is principally supported; there are
also schools at Blackwater-town and Derrycrevy, and
near the old churchyard at Clonfeacle is a national
school. At Benburb, Gorestown, Drummond, Mully-
carnan, and Carrowcolman, schools were built and are
supported by funds arising from a bequest, by Lord
Powerscourt, of £2000 for charitable uses, and are
conducted under the moral agency system. The sum
of £4 per annum is paid to the poor of this parish from
Drelincourt’s charity, and two children are eligible to
the Drelincourt school at Armagh. A bequest of £100
was made to the poor by a person whose name is now
unknown. The ruins of Benburb castle, situated on
the summit of a limestone rock overhanging the river,
have a very picturesque appearance; and near them
was found a silver signet ring, bearing the arms and
initials of Turlogh O’Nial, which is now in the possession
of Mr. Bell, of Dungannon. Several interesting relics of
antiquity have been found in various parts; a large
well-formed canoe was found in the bed of the river at
Blackwater-town, in 1826, and is now in the garden of
C. Magee, Esq.; it is scooped out of an oak tree, and
is in good preservation. The same gentleman has also
some very perfect querns, an altar of rude construc-
tion, several stone hatchets, and the horns of an elk,
which were found a few years since at Drumlee. At
Tullydoey are some inconsiderable vestiges of an an-
cient fort.
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CLONFERT, a parish, in the barony of DUHALLOW,
county of CORK, and province of MUNSTER; contain-
ing, with the post-towns of Kanturk and Newmarket,
14,145 inhabitants. This parish, which is also called
“Trinity Christ Church Newmarket,” is situated on the
rivers Allua and Dallua, which meet at Kanturk, in
their course to the Blackwater; and on the road from
Cork, through the Bogra mountains, to Abbeyfeale, in
the county of Limerick, and Listowel, in. the county of
Kerry. It extends 16 Irish miles from north-west to
south-east, and contains 64,871 acres, valued for the
county cess at £19,677 per annum. About half the
parish consists of bog and mountain; the other half of
arable and pasture land of inferior quality. There are
extensive beds of culm, some of which, near New-
market, have been but are not now worked. This dis-
trict has been much benefited by the road from Cork
to Abbeyfeale, which was constructed soon after the
distress in 1822; and much further benefit would be
produced by connecting that road with the new Govern-
ment road from Roskeen bridge, through King-Wil-
liam’s-Town, to Castle Island, by a short road of about
five Irish miles, passing the valuable but hitherto isolat-
ed, limestone quarry at Tour. This parish comprehends
the extensive manor of Newmarket, and portions of those
of Kanturk and Castle Mac Auliffe; the remainder of
the latter manor is in Kilmeen, and of Kanturk, in Kil-
meen and Kilbrin.
The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Cloyne, and
in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is impro-
priate in Col. Longfield, of Longueville: the tithes amount
to £1163. 1. 6., of which half is paid to the impropriator
and half to the vicar. A glebe-house was erected in
1811, near Newmarket, aided by a loan of £1125 from
the late Board of First Fruits, but, having become dila-
pidated, has been taken down: the glebe comprises 9
statute acres, one having been lately annexed to the old
burial-ground of Clonfert, by permission of the bishop.
The parish church, in the town of Newmarket, is a
handsome edifice, in the later style of English architec-
ture, built in 1826, at an expense of £2200, of which
£2000 was a loan from the late Board of First Fruits;
it has a square tower, embattled and pinnacled, and
surmounted by a lofty spire, the whole formed of hewn
limestone. The church at Kanturk, which is annexed
to the perpetual cure of that place, is a neat building,
with a square tower, embattled and pinnacled. In the
R. C. divisions this parish contains two parochial dis-
tricts, Kanturk and Newmarket, which see. Besides
the schools at those places, the Irish Society has four
circulating schools in the parish; and there are several
private schools. Of Mac Auliffe’s castle, which was
situated near Newmarket, and was a chief seat of the
sept of that name, only the foundation exists; but of
the castle of Carrigacashel, near Priory, the ruins still
remain. There was formerly a castle on the Mount,
near Mr. Aldworth’s lodge, in Newmarket, and another
at Curragh, which also belonged to the Mac Auliffes;
both have been demolished, and on the site of the latter
is a handsome modern house, the residence of Neptune
Blood, Esq. In Mr. Aldworth’s demesne many trinkets
and military implements have been found. Here are
some chalybeate springs.
CLONFERT, a parish, and the seat of a diocese, in
the barony of LONGFORD, county of GALWAY, and pro-