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CLO
is navigable to Waterford, 2½ miles (S. W. by S.) from
Carlow on the road to Leighlin-Bridge; containing 1422
inhabitants, and comprising 4737 statute acres, of which
290 are woodland, and 324 bog; the remainder is arable
and pasture; 3764 acres are applotted under the tithe
act, and valued at £3774 per annum. The state of agri-
culture is very good. Limestone abounds, and is applied
both as manure and for building: there are limekilns on
a large scale, the produce of which is chiefly conveyed
into the counties of Wicklow and Wexford, Coal also
abounds, and is worked extensively. Sessions are held
quarterly at Milford. Here are extensive corn-mills and
malt-kilns, in which about 100 persons are employed.
The principal seats are Clogrennan Castle, the residence
of Col. Rochfort; Milford, of J, Alexander, Esq.; Font-
hill, of W. Fishbourne, Esq.; and Lenham Lodge, of
Capt. Butler. Clogrennan was formerly an estate of the
Dukes of Ormonde, and gave the title of baron in the
Irish peerage to the Earls of Arran, The castle was
taken by Sir P. Carew, in 1568, from Sir E. Butler, who
was then in rebellion: in 1642 it was besieged by the
Irish, but was relieved by Col. Sir P. Wemys; and here
the Marquess of Ormonde mustered his forces prior to
the battle of Rathmines. The ruins, overgrown with ivy
and forming a remarkably picturesque object, yet exist,
together with the remains of an old church, near the
present house, which is approached through one of its
gateways. The grounds, which are very beautiful, are
bordered on the west by the mountains of the Queen’s
county, the sides of which are clothed with wood to a
considerable height, and on the east by the course of the
Barrow, adorned by several well-wooded islets. On
Bawn-Ree, Jas. II, encamped after his defeat at the
battle of the Boyne. Some curious relics of antiquity,
including brazen swords and arrow-heads, were found
in a ford across the Barrow, about 1¼ mile distant, in
1819. The living is a vicarage, in the diocese of Leigh-
lin, and in the patronage of the Bishop; the rectory is
impropriate in Col. Bruen and W. Fishbourne, Esq.
The tithes amount to £276. 18. 5½., of which £92. 6. 1.
is payable to the vicar, and the remainder to the lay
impropriators. The glebe-house was built by a gift of
£400 and a loan of £360 from the late Board of First
Fruits, in 1813; the glebe comprises six acres, subject
to a rent of £4. 4. per acre. The church, a plain neat
edifice in good repair, was built by aid of a gift of £500
from the same Board in 1803, and to the repairs of
it the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have recently made
a grant of £167. 5. 11. In the R. C. divisions this
parish is in the union or district of Old Leighlin, and
has a chapel. Besides the parochial school, there is
one in the chapel-yard at Ballinabranna 5 the number
of children in these schools is about 150; and in a
hedge school are taught about 90 children. The ruins
of the old church are in the demesne of Clogrennan;
the cemetery is still used.
CLOYNE, a market and post-town, a parish, and
the seat of a diocese, in the barony of IMOKILLY, county
of CORK, and province of MUNSTER, 14 miles (E. by S.)
from Cork, and 126 (S. W. by S.) from Dublin, on
the road from Midleton to the sea; containing 6410
inhabitants, of which number, 2227 are in the town.
It originated in the foundation of the see of Cloyne by
St. Colman, who died in 604. In 707, an abbey was
erected on the west side of the cathedral, which was
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plundered in 978 by the people of Ossory, and again,
in 1089, by Dermot, the son of Fiordhealbhach O’Brien,
The town is pleasantly situated in a level or slightly
undulating plain, and is well sheltered by rising grounds
and plantations, which give great amenity to the climate,
It comprises two streets intersecting each other at right
angles, and contains 330 houses, most of which are
small and irregularly built. The bishop’s palace is a
large edifice, built by Bishop Crow, in 1718, and en-
larged by several of the succeeding prelates. The
grounds are well arranged, and near the house is a
noble terrace, extending the whole length of the garden.
The palace and demesne were leased, in 1836, by the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to H. Allen, Esq., for
999 years, at a rent of £450 per annum, a fine of £2000,
and £1300 for the timber: Mr. Allen intends to take
down all the old part of the palace. The only manu-
facture is that of brogues and hats, which employs about
100 persons. The market is held on Thursday, and is
well attended by buyers from Cove and Cork. Fairs are
held on Feb. 24th, Easter and Whit-Tuesdays, Aug. 1st,
Sept. 12th, and Dec. 5th, for the sale of horses, cattle,
sheep, pigs, and implements of husbandry. It is a con-
stabulary police station. The bishop, who is lord of
the manor, appoints a seneschal, who holds a court-leet
annually, and a manor court once in three weeks.
Petty sessions are held every second Wednesday. The
parish comprises 10,324 acres, of which 9552 are sub-
ject to tithe; the remainder consists of the bishop’s
lands, or those belonging to an ancient hospital, upon
which part of the town is built. The soil is good, par-
ticularly in the valley, where it rests on a substratum
of limestone. At Carrigacrump is a quarry of fine
marble, somewhat similar to the Italian dove-coloured
marble; it is the property of Col. Hooden. The parish
is intersected by that of Kilmahon, which entirely
separates from it the village and ploughland of Bally-
cotton, forming the extreme western point of the coast
in Ballycotton bay. Besides the Episcopal palace, the
principal seats are Kilboy House, the residence of F.
Rowland, Esq.; Kilcrone, of J. Hanning, Esq.; Barna-
brow, of J. R. Wilkinson, Esq; the Residentiary-house,
of the Rev. W. Welland; Cloyne House, the seat of H.
Allen, Esq.; the residence of the Rev, Dr. Hingston,
Vicar-General of the diocese; Jamesbrook Hall, of
R. W. G. Adams, Esq.; and Ballybane, of T. Gaggin,
Esq. Not far from the town are Rostellan, the seat of
the Marquess of Thomond, and Castle-Mary, of the
Rev. R. Longfield.
The DIOCESE of CLOYNE
is called, in the ancient Ro-
man Provincial, Cluain-Va-
nian, and by the Irish his-
torians Cluain- Vama. Of
the successors of St. Col-
man little is recorded till
after the an al of the En-
glish in the reign of Hen.
II.; the only names that
have been preserved from
the foundation of the see till
that period are those of
O’Malvain, who died in
1094; Nehemiah O’Moriertach, who presided from
1140 till 1149; and of his successors, O’Dubery and