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tutes the prebend of Clonmethan in the cathedral of
St. Patrick, and in the patronage of the Archbishop: the
tithes amount to £270. The glebe-house was erected in
1817, by aid of a gift of £100, and a loan of £1350,
from the late Board: there is a glebe of 35 acres in
this parish, and one of 19 acres and 2 roods in Bally-
madun; and the gross revenue of the prebend, accord-
ing to the report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical
Inquiry, is £638. A neat church was erected in 1818,
by £250 parish cess, and a loan of £500 from the late
Board of First Fruits, and the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners have lately granted £175. 4. 11. towards its
repair. The mother church of Clonmethan was dedi-
cated to St. Mary, and the chapel of Fieldstown, which
was dedicated to St. Catharine, was subordinate to it.
In the R. C. divisions the parish forms part of the union
or district of Rollestown, and has a chapel at Old Town,
which was erected in 1827, by subscription, and cost
nearly £300. Here is a private school, in which are 50
children; and at Old Town is a dispensary.
CLONMINES, an ancient disfranchised parliamen-
tary borough, and a parish, in the barony of SHELBURNE,
county of WEXFORD, and province of LEINSTER, on the
high road from Wexford to Duncannon and Fethard,
near the upper extremity of a small bay, 5 miles (N. E.
by N.) from Fethard; containing 360 inhabitants. This
parish comprises 1359 statute acres, and is the property
of A. Annesley, Esq., of Blechingdon Park, in the county
of Oxford. The town, which was of great antiquity
but is now only distinguished by its ruins, occupied an
area of about 20 acres, and was surrounded by a vallum
and fosse. According to Mr. Fraser it had, in the time
of the Danes, a mint for coining silver, which was found
on the opposite side of the Scar, at a place called
Barry’s-town, in the parish of Bannow. A convent for
Eremites of the order of St. Augustine was founded
here at a very early period by the family of Kavanagh
or Cavenagh, which was considerably enlarged and
beautified by Nicholas Fitz-Nicholas, in 1385, and was
subsequently occupied by friars of the order of St.
Dominick. A castle was also built by one of the family
of Roger de Sutton, who accompanied Fitz-Stephen to
Ireland, which has been converted into a farm-house,
and is now in the occupation of Mr. Richard Sutton, a
descendant of the founder, whose family is now the only
one residing within the limits of the ancient town.
Ships formerly came up to the town, but the port has
been blocked up by a shifting bar at the entrance. The
borough seems to have been, held of the king in free
burgage: several inquisitions post mortem, in the reigns
of Jas. I. and Chas. I., mention the seisin of certain
persons in burgages, but contain no allusion to a cor-
poration or charter, which it appears the borough never
had. It returned two members to the Irish parliament
prior to the Union, when the £15,000 awarded as com-
pensation for the abolition of its franchise was granted
to Chas., Marquess of Ely, and Chas. Tottenham, of
Ballycurry, in the county of Wicklow, Esq. This is an
impropriate curacy, in the diocese of Ferns, and forms
part of the union of Tintern; the tithes, amounting to
£80, are impropriate in Caesar Colclough, Esq. In the
R. C. divisions also it is in the union or district of
Tintern. A parochial school-house was built by Mr.
Annesley, by whom the school and a dispensary are
supported. The ruins of the ancient town are very
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interesting: they are commonly called “Clonmines
Castles,” and consist chiefly of the tower and walls of
the parish church, and a fragment of the wall which
enclosed the monastery, with one of the flanking towers.
Embosomed in trees, and forming a strikingly pictur-
esque feature in these ruins, is a small chapel sur-
mounted by two turrets leading by spiral staircases
within to a parapet: it is said to have been built by a
person that had risen from the humble station of a
cowherd to great opulence, over the remains of his
mother, and was endowed by him with a stipend for a
priest to say masses for her soul; it is still called the
Cowboy’s Chapel.
CLONMORE, a parish, in the barony of RATHVILLY,
county of CARLOW, and province of LEINSTER, 2½
miles (S. S. W.) from Hacketstown, on the road from
Tullow to Hacketstown and Tinahely; containing 2244
inhabitants. It comprises 26,210 statute acres, of which
about 2430 are covered with heath and furze, 130 are
woodland, and 1500 bog, and of the remainder, one-fifth
is arable and the rest a kind of pasture and meadow:
of its entire surface, 5855 acres are applotted under the
tithe act. There are some indications of agricultural
improvement, although a considerable quantity of un-
profitable land might be reclaimed and brought under
tillage. Clonmore Lodge is the residence of Lieut.-Col.
Whelan; Castle View, of the Rev. R. A. Martin; and
the glebe-house, of the Hon. and Rev. Archdeacon
Stopford. The living is a rectory, in the diocese of
Leighlin, and constitutes the corps of the archdeaconry
of Leighlin, in the patronage of the Bishop: the tithes
amount to £304. 12. 3¾. The glebe-house was built
about 1812, by aid of a gift of £100 and a loan of £450
from the late Board of First Fruits: the glebe com-
prises ten acres. The church, a plain decent edifice,
was built about the same period, by aid of a gift of
£600 from the Board. In the R. C. divisions this pa-
rish is the head of a union or district, comprising the
parishes of Clonmore, Liscoleman, and Mullinacuffe,
and parts of those of Haroldstown, Aghold, Crecrim,
and Fennagh: the chapel at Clonmore is a plain slated
building, not in very good repair; and there are two
others in the union, situated at Knock ballastine and
Kilquiggan, in the parishes of Liscoleman and Aghold.
There are a parochial and a national school, affording
instruction to about 180 children, including several
sent hither from the Foundling Hospital in Dublin. At
a short distance from the church are the venerable
ruins of the castle, the origin of which, though not satis-
factorily ascertained, is with some degree of probability
attributed to the Earl of Ormonde, to whom the place
was granted in the reign of Hen. VIII., although the
castle of Clonmore is recorded to have been taken by
the English in 1332. The ruins form three sides of a
quadrangle, 170 feet square, of which the fourth has
been demolished; at the angles are towers, and the
whole was surrounded by a deep fosse, now filled up;
several cabins have been built within the walls. Clon-
more gives the inferior title of Baron to the Earl of
Wicklow.
CLONMORE, a parish, in the barony of IVERK,
county of KILKENNY, and province of LEINSTER, 2½
miles (S. S. E.) from Piltown, on the mail coach road from
Limerick to Waterford; containing 702 inhabitants.
Agriculture is in an improved state, and there is no waste